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Insurers Get Aggressive with Years-Old Audits

Laboratory Billing / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: Not only are health insurers looking back to find overpayments and funds paid erroneously, but payers also are requiring documentation for overpayments. If clinical labs and anatomic pathology groups do not appeal such claims quickly, they may be liable for any amount insurers deem to be overpayments, experts said. Health insurers also are …

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Record 600 Pathologist Jobs Open Nationwide

Pathology Trends / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: Demand for top-level pathologists is surging. A strong rise in the number of job openings for pathologists results from a combination of factors, some related to COVID-19. Now that physicians are seeing patients again, the number of specimens has risen after falling last year, creating demand for new hires, a consultant said. The …

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Many Patients in United Kingdom Not Getting Speedy Diagnosis

Pathology Trends / By Robert Michel

RECENT NEWS REPORTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM indicate that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the ongoing problem of lengthy delays in diagnosis of patients within the National Health Service (NHS). This is particularly true of delays for patients waiting on results of their cancer tests. Currently, approximately 5.3 million patients are on a waiting list …

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India’s Neuberg Diagnostics Expands into U.S. Market

Clinical Laboratory / By Robert Michel

“Our idea is to enhance the access and affordability for next-generation techniques, meaning molecular diagnostics, genomics, pathology, digital pathology, proteomics, metabolomics, and all that. This is the spirit behind Neuberg Diagnostics. —GSK Velu, PhD, BPharm CEO SUMMARY: India is a nation where 50,000 pathology labs operate to serve the clinical laboratory testing needs of 1.4 …

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Interesting New Surprises for Lab Leaders

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

Unexpected and surprising things continue to happen in the clinical laboratory industry. You might consider that to be one unifying theme to the intelligence briefings we present in this issue of The Dark Report. For example, a pathology lab company in New Jersey sued UnitedHealthcare (UHC) seeking payment for 46,400 molecular COVID- 19 test claims …

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Genesis Lab Lawsuit Pursues UnitedHealth Over Unpaid Test Claims

TDR Insider / By Robert Michel

This is an excerpt of a 1,946-word article in the July 6, 2021 issue of THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: New case law in how health insurers should reimburse for COVID-19 lab test claims might be one outcome of Genesis lab’s lawsuit …

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NJ Lab Sues UnitedHealth Over Unpaid Test Claims

Laboratory Billing / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: New case law in how health insurers should reimburse for COVID-19 lab test claims might be one outcome if a New Jersey lab company were to prevail in a federal lawsuit it filed against UnitedHealthcare alleging non-payment of COVID-19 test claims. An interesting fact mentioned in court records is that the health insurer …

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Labcorp Now Using AI for Operations, Patient Care

Laboratory Equipment / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: In recent years, Labcorp invested significant sums to use artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies—often integrated with robotic systems—to improve work processes and gain real-time insights from vast amounts of data. In this exclusive interview, Lance Berberian, Labcorp’s Chief Information and Technology Officer, discussed several of the successes the lab company is having …

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XIFIN to Open New Office in South Carolina for Lab Billing

Laboratory Billing / By Robert Michel

SINCE FEBRUARY, THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PEOPLE VACCINATED grew steadily even as the number of tests for COVID-19 declined sharply in the United States. But overall test volume has remained steady at 130% of pre-pandemic levels, said Brian Kemp, Vice President of Revenue Cycle Operations for XIFIN, a revenue-cycle management company for clinical laboratories. Such …

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Amazon Now Interested in Home Testing Services

Clinical Laboratory Trends / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: In the past year, internet retailing giant Amazon has built sizeable clinical laboratories in the United States and the United Kingdom. Now it has regulatory clearance to sell a molecular COVID-19 test to consumers for home collection. Comments made in the past month by an Amazon spokesperson describe Amazon’s diagnostic testing activities as …

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