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Volume XXVIII, No. 8 - June 14, 2021

New Primary Care Providers May Change Who Buys & Who Orders Lab Tests

TDR Insider / By

This is an excerpt of a 2,445-word article in the June 14, 2021 issue of  THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: This first installment in our series describes why market forces are at work to create a new player in healthcare that will …

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Whistleblower Lab Manager Files Response to PerkinElmer Lawsuit

Laboratory Compliance / By

IN A DAVID-VERSUS-GOLIATH-LIKE BATTLE, perhaps the most unusual lawsuit in decades involving clinical laboratory operations and compliance is unfolding in a federal courthouse in California. In this case, a multi-billion-dollar in vitro diagnostics (IVD) company is suing a laboratory manager who was once in a leadership position at a lab the plaintiff company operated, and …

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Major Changes Coming to Primary Care

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / By

For more than a decade, Medicare officials and healthcare policymakers have told the medical establishment that the primary goal must be to keep people healthy and out of hospitals, and to help patients manage their chronic conditions so as to avoid acute events.  Stated another way, the goal is to shift the U.S. healthcare system …

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MedPAC Advises Congress on Lab-Data Reporting

Laboratory Billing / By

CEO SUMMARY: For years, the clinical lab industry has sought unsuccessfully to get the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to address the inequities in the payment formula CMS adopted after Congress passed the Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA). In April, the lab industry received good news when the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission …

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New Players May Alter Who Buys & Who Orders Lab Tests

Clinical Laboratory Trends / By

CEO SUMMARY: This first installment in our series describes why market forces are at work to create a new player in healthcare that will transform the lab testing marketplace as we know it today in two ways. First, a new category of primary care providers has the potential to eventually order as many lab tests …

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Getting Payer Coverage for New Tests Continues to Be Difficult

Managed Care Contracts / By

EVERY YEAR, IT BECOMES TOUGHER FOR CLINICAL LABORATORIES WITH NEW GENETIC AND OTHER TESTS to obtain favorable coverage decisions by government and private payers.  Not only does it take longer to get a decision from a payer, but payers today want to see more complete data on the analytical and clinical validity of the test …

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June 14, 2021 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News

Late Breaking Lab News / By

Is it possible to use a genetic test to predict an individual’s risk of severe infection requiring hospitalization or death from SARS-CoV-2? That is the claim of Australian-based molecular diagnostics company Genetic Technologies Limited. It recently announced an agreement with U.S.-based Infinity BiologiX LLC (IBX) to sell its “COVID-19 Severe Disease Risk Test” to consumers …

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