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Volume XXX No. 3 - February 13, 2023

Pandemic Helped Lab with Hospital Leaders

Lab Intelligence, Laboratory Equipment, Laboratory Management, People / By

CEO SUMMARY: Growth at Atrium Health during the COVID-19 pandemic elevated its clinical laboratory’s profile with medical leaders and health system administrators. What followed was a new spirit of collaboration that led to lab involvement in cost savings efforts, such as improved blood culture collection and better utilization of expensive reference lab testing. ATRIUM HEALTH …

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Public IVD Companies Report Q4, Full-Year 2022 Earnings

In Vitro Diagnostics, IVD/Lab Informatics, Lab Marketplace, Laboratory Equipment / By

YEAR-END AND Q4 EARNINGS REPORTS FROM MAJOR IN VITRO DIAGNOSTICS (IVD) COMPANIES pointed to a welcome sign of core diagnostic business rebounding.  That’s the good news for IVD firms. The bad news? All of the SARS-CoV-2 testing revenue that these companies brought in over the last three years—as clinical laboratories and the general public demanded …

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February 13, 2023, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News

Late Breaking Lab News / By

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 treatment, including some diagnostic laboratory tests. If patients …

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Lab Accreditors CAP and Joint Commission Face Inspector Hiring Pressures

TDR Insider / By

In an exclusive story, The Dark Report covers the difficulties facing lab accreditors the College of American Pathologists (CAP) and The Joint Commission (TJC) in staffing inspection and survey teams under CLIA. Like the clinical laboratories they accredit to the requirements of Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA), TJC and CAP face recruitment and …

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Building Collaborations to Deliver More Value

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / By

Innovative clinical laboratory leaders closely monitoring the financial health of their labs or hospitals will find plenty to chew on in this issue of The Dark Report.  The laboratory team at Atrium Health in Charlotte, North Carolina sets the stage with a case study about how the lab team’s interaction with health system administrators and …

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CAP, Joint Commission Under Pressure to Add More Inspectors

Clinical Laboratory Trends, Lab Intelligence / By

CEO SUMMARY: Like the clinical laboratories they accredit to the requirements of CLIA, The Joint Commission and College of American Pathologist (CAP) face recruitment and hiring pressures when it comes to their surveyors and inspectors. Labs involved with CAP’s peer inspections may be finding it difficult to send out staff members for days at a …

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Labcorp to Pay $19m to Settle Whistleblower Allegations

Lab Intelligence, Lab Risk & Compliance, Laboratory Compliance / By

LABCORP AGREED TO SETTLE WHISTLEBLOWER ALLEGATIONS that it violated the False Claims Act by allowing its phlebotomists to draw blood from patients when the company allegedly knew kickbacks were behind the test orders for other lab firms. As part of the settlement, Labcorp in Burlington, North Carolina, will pay the federal government $19 million, the …

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Fujifilm Buys Inspirata’s Digital Pathology Assets

Digital Pathology, Lab Marketplace / By

CEO SUMMARY: Fujifilm’s acquisition of the digital pathology technologies and clients of Inspirata marks the departure of one early entrant into the digital pathology market. At the same time, executives from Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation discuss why the company is increasing its offerings in digital pathology.  AT THE END OF 2022, Fujifilm announced its acquisition …

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