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Volume XX No. 15 - November 11, 2013

Medicare Overstepped With Proposed Rules

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / By

FOR SEVERAL YEARS NOW, officials at the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have signaled their unhappiness with the status quo in how coverage guidelines and prices must be established for clinical laboratory testing and anatomic pathology services. These pages have chronicled some of the analyses and reports commissioned by CMS over the …

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Medicare Price Cuts Drive Labs to Sell or File BK

Clinical Laboratory Trends / By

CEO SUMMARY: Professional investors are smart with their money. Thus, it is no surprise that clinical lab and pathology companies owned by private equity firms are the first to be sold or closed. These investors are acting in response to the cumulative negative financial impact of recent cuts to lab test prices. Even more worrisome …

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MedLab CEO Discusses Changes in Lab Market

Clinical Laboratory Trends / By

CEO SUMMARY: Two factors combined to cause executives at Laboratory Partners and its MedLab business division to file a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition on October 25. One was the sustained and continuing cuts to lab test reimbursement. The other was the reluctance of Wall Street investors to continue to fund the company. The majority of …

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Broward Health’s Lab Pursues Multiple Ways to Cut Lab Costs

Laboratory Management / By

CEO SUMMARY: Tasked with cutting $2 million from their lab’s annual operating budget, the lab team at Broward Health System instituted changes that included a lab test formulary and ordering algorithms. In collaboration with physicians, these changes reduced the use of outmoded tests while ensuring that the correct test or blood product was ordered for …

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Most Colorado Labs Now Connected to State’s HIE

Laboratory Information Systems / By

CEO SUMMARY: One trend getting little publicity is that of health information exchanges (HIEs). Since its founding in 2009, the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO) has grown steadily. Today, most of the state’s independent lab companies and hospital laboratories are connected to CORHIO. Real-time access to laboratory test data is one feature that has …

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November 11, 2013 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

Late Breaking Lab News / By

Who would have guessed that Angelina Jolie would do a multi-million-dollar favor to Myriad Genetics, Inc.? Jolie caused quite a stir earlier this year when she went public with the news that she had done a prophylactic double mastectomy after she had learned the results of her BRCA test for breast cancer risk. That news …

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