Late Breaking Lab News
March 2, 2026, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
The American Clinical Laboratory Association (ACLA) is pushing for passage of the Reforming and Enhancing Sustainable Updates to Laboratory Testing Services Act of 2025 (RESULTS Act) with the goal of attaching it to a year-end spending bill in Congress. If successful, the legislation co…
February 9, 2026, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against Epic Systems, intensifying scrutiny of how pediatric medical records are controlled and the broader power of dominant electronic health record (EHR) vendors. The suit alleges Epic unlawfully monopolizes the EHR…
January 19, 2026, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Entrepreneur Mark Cuban is calling for financial penalties to curb what he describes as systemic overbilling across the US healthcare system, a proposal that could significantly raise the stakes for insurers, hospitals, and clinical laboratories. In a provocative Dec. 24 post on X, Cuba…
December 29, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is expanding its use of precision medicine through a new multi-year contract with Baylor Genetics to provide pharmacogenomic (PGx) and germline genetic testing to veterans across the VA’s nationwide healthcare system. The agreement includes P…
December 8, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
For the next 46 months, a Georgia fraudster will stay behind bars after pleading guilty to charges he violated the Anti-Kickback Statute by arranging for medically unnecessary genetic tests. A judge sentenced Patrick C. Moore, Jr. on Dec. 2. Moore was also ordered to pay $7.2 million in…
November 17, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Dealmaking continues in the in vitro diagnostics (IVD) industry as AI-driven genomics and private equity reshape the market for a data-first future. On Nov. 4, Qiagen said it will acquire Parse Biosciences for $280 million to expand its reach into single-cell sequencing, levera…
October 27, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
In yet another shuffling of the in vitro diagnostics (IVD) space, Hologic announced on Oct. 21 that it was being acquired by private equity firms Blackstone and TPG for $18.3 billion. The deal will take Hologic off the Nasdaq, likely in early 2026. TPG and Blackstone lauded Hol…
October 6, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Bloomberg News has reported that Siemens Healthineers is potentially exploring a sale of its diagnostics division. Several large private equity firms have held early talks with Siemens, including Blackstone, CVC Capital Partners, and KKR & Co., according to Bloomberg. Sourc…
September 15, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Owners of pathology practices and clinical labs will want to be aware of recent action by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regarding non-compete clauses. The FTC sent letters to several large healthcare employers asking them to review their non-compete agreements. “Many healthcare e…
August 25, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
As we first reported in Dark Daily earlier this month, several states have taken initiative to regulate how artificial intelligence (AI) applies to clinical laboratory services. For example, a California law that went into effect earlier this year impacts providers who use gene…
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