Volume XXVIII, Number 1 - January 19, 2021 Archives

CAP Loses CLIA Accreditation Clients to Joint Commission

This is an excerpt of a 1,790-word article in the January 19, 2021 issue of THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: Over the past 18 months, several prominent national health systems decided to shift their CLIA laboratory accreditation services away from the College […]

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2021 Opens with a Major Story … and It’s Not COVID!

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / R. Lewis Dark

On the pages that follow, you will learn about a major story in the clinical laboratory industry that has gone unreported and publicly unremarked by the lab profession at large. This story is how three large health systems that own 372 hospitals have switched to a different CLIA (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments) accreditation organization over

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CAP Loses Accreditation Clients to Joint Commission

Clinical Laboratory Trends / Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: Over the past 18 months, several prominent national health systems decided to shift their CLIA laboratory accreditation services away from the College of American Pathologists and to The Joint Commission. These shifts from one accrediting body to another will involve hundreds of hospital laboratories. Such a shift in the market for CLIA accreditation

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Why Are Health Systems Changing CLIA Accreditors?

Clinical Laboratory Trends / Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: It is uncommon for a major health system to switch its CLIA lab accreditation business from one accrediting body to another. Yet, just in the past 18 months, that decision was made by the Veterans Administration, Ascension Health, and Providence Health. This is an important development for the entire clinical laboratory profession, because

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Understanding Differences Between 2 CLIA Accreditors

Clinical Laboratory / Robert Michel

MAJOR CHANGES ARE HAPPENING IN THE COMPETITIVE MARKET for CLIA accreditation of hospital laboratories. Some health systems representing hundreds of hospitals have shifted from using the College of American Pathologists (CAP) to using The Joint Commission (TJC) to meet the accreditation requirements of the federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment (CLIA) statute. Such a movement of

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January 19, 2021 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News

Late Breaking Lab News / Robert Michel

Just days ago, the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued updated information about the COVID-19 tests it has authorized since early in the pandemic. As of Jan. 15, 2021, the agency had authorized a total of 317 tests for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Included in this total are 236 molecular tests, 68 antibody tests, and

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