Late Breaking Lab News
May 8, 2023, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Responding to the need to expand access to training for diagnostic testing professionals, the CDC’s Division of Laboratory Systems has launched OneLab TEST (Timely Education and Support of Testers)….
April 17, 2023, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
There may soon be a new name for the well-known American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC). The proposed new name is Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine (A…
March 27, 2023, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Clinical laboratory leaders watching at-home care evolve should note the new partnership between Best Buy and Atrium Health in Charlotte, North Carolina. As part of the deal, Best Buy Health, a division of the retailer, will assist patients in setting up the technology pieces of …
March 6, 2023, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Since Congress did not include new regulations for laboratory-developed tests (LDTs) in a year-end spending budget, it appears the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will take steps of its own to increase the agency’s oversight of LDTs. “We are moving forward with rulemaking,” said Eliza…
February 13, 2023, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Laboratory leaders should prepare now for the end of the federal public health emergency (PHE) for SARS-CoV-2. The White House announced the PHE would cease on May 11. One big change is that patients covered by Medicare, Medicaid, or private insurance may pay higher costs for COVID-19 t…
January 23, 2023, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
New data from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) offers further evidence of a decreasing talent pool of pathologists in the United States. Active physicians in anatomic and clinical pathology dropped from 13,201 in 2016 to 12,180 in 2021—a 7.7% decrease, according to the AAM…
January 3, 2023, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
At the moment, it appears that the controversial Verifying Accurate Leading-edge IVCT Development (VALID) Act will have a hard time passing in Congress. The bill, which is intended to shift regulation of laboratory-developed tests (LDTs) to the federal Food and Drug Administration…
December 12, 2022, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Is it time to allow consumers to do at-home testing for influenza? Given the already-raging influenza season—flu-related hospitalizations doubled the week of Nov. 20 compared to a week earlier, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—the STAT medical news site ra…
November 21, 2022, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
In yet another employment ripple from the pandemic, a group of more than 75 pathologists penned a letter to Congress urging lawmakers to retain the option for remote diagnostic work. In the letter, which appeared in the Oct. 20 issue of Nature, the pathologists wrote, “During the COVID-19 pa…
October 31, 2022, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Clinical laboratories may soon face increasing pressure to test for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) now that the public has become aware of the pathogen. Over the past month, there has been an onslaught of media attention on RSV. The coverage has often focused on how this common virus could tag…
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Volume XXX, No. 7 – May 8, 2023
The Dark Report examines how the acquisition of Geisinger Health by Kaiser Permanente not only sets the stage for more blockbuster hospital deals, but offers a platform for new value-based reimbursement models. Also in this issue, payers are seeking ever more documentation before they’ll pay lab test claims.
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