Late Breaking Lab News
July 22, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Some hospitals failing to comply with the federal price transparency regulation have been fined. The website of CMS.gov lists 15 hospitals and the amount each was fined. On June 6, 2022, the first fines were levied against Northside Hospital of Atlanta ($883,130) and Northsid…
July 1, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Last week, it was announced that Quest Diagnostics “would acquire select laboratory assets from 12-hospital Allina Health” the Minneapolis-based health system. Quest stated, “Under the terms of the definitive agreemen…
June 10, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Once a high-flier lab test manufacturer with a market valuation of $2 billion, Cue Health of San Diego filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on May 28. Analysts now say the company is valued at about $15 million. Founded in 2010, Cue Health was developing a test system that consumers could …
May 20, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Last month, members of a class action lawsuit against Theranos and other defendants received settlement checks. Members of the class included TDR’s Editor-in-Chief, Robert Michel, and his wife, Deborah. On behalf of The Dark Report, the Michels had investigated the actual laborator…
April 29, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
It may be that the genetic data cat is out of the bag already. Nonetheless, lawmakers in Delaware are considering a bill that—among other things—would prevent life insurance companies from buying or using genetic testing data if it was obtained from ancestry companies and not from medical records…
April 8, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
UnitedHealth Group stated that the cyberattack against Change Healthcare, a business unit of UnitedHealth’s Optum division, disrupted processing of approximately $14 billion in claims. The company discovered the cyberattack on Feb. 21 and said it d…
March 18, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
In California last month, Quest Diagnostics entered into a settlement agreement with California Attorney General Rob Bonta and nine local district attorneys. KCRA News of Sacramento reported that the “settlement resolves allegations that the company unlawfully disposed of …
February 26, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Following an investment of $1.75 million, officials at University of Maine at Augusta (UMA) opened a new lab facility this month that allows it to double the number of medical laboratory technicians it can train, from eight to 10 to as many as 20. In its coverage of the new training …
February 5, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
In Australia last December, a clinical lab company was taken to court by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), which deals with privacy issues. The government agency alleges that Australian Clinical Labs (ACL) had “serious and systemic” fa…
January 16, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
If a patient’s genetic test generates results that are actionable, will that patient move forward with treatment? That is one question asked by researchers in a study led by Vanderbilt University Medical Center that was published in the American Journal of Human Genetics. …
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Volume XXXI, No. 10 – July 22, 2024
An attorney widely experienced in clinical laboratory regulation has prepared guidelines for complying with the FDA’s new LDT rule, and The Dark Report offers them in their entirety to readers. Also, a House of Representatives bill includes language calling for the FDA to suspend its rule.
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