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NorDx Lab Started COVID Preparation in 2019

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This is an excerpt of a 2,995-word article in the December 7, 2020 issue of THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: In a remarkable example of prescience, informed by decades-long experience in clinical lab testing and past epidemics, the president of NorDx Laboratories …

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Why Labs Operate in a ‘Duality’ during Pandemic

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HAS IT OCCURRED TO MANY OF YOU THAT YOUR CLINICAL LABORATORIES today must operate in what I will describe as an operational “duality”?  On one side, your lab must deal with COVID-19 testing. This is true whether your lab performs molecular SARS-CoV-2 tests or simply handles specimens that you refer to other labs for testing. …

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Surprise! Many Fewer Cases of Flu in US, Canada, Europe

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IN NORTH AMERICA, THE INFLUENZA SEASON IS NOW UNDERWAY.  But it is starting off much slower than in past years. What makes this significant is that the number of influenza cases as reported by Europe and countries in the southern hemisphere also has been much lower than in a typical year.  In the United Kingdom, …

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Memphis Path Lab Pivots to COVID, Pooled Testing

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CEO SUMMARY: When routine testing volume declined sharply last winter and spring, one of the nation’s largest anatomic pathology groups added testing for COVID-19 and boosted revenue significantly. Since then, the laboratory has become the first in the nation to gain an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to do pooled testing with 20 samples in one …

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State of California’s COVID Lab Producing Inconclusive Results

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Inconclusive COVID-19 test results and delays in reporting results continue to plague the state of California’s brand new clinical laboratory, located in Valencia. That’s according to reports by several news outlets in the Golden State.  On Nov. 20, CBS13 reported that the “state’s new billion-dollar PerkinElmer lab is returning a high number of inconclusive test …

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CMS Sends Cease/Desist Letters to Labs Lacking CLIA Certificates

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CLINICAL LABORATORIES DOING COVID-19 TESTING and lacking the proper CLIA certificates to do so are receiving cease-and-desist letters from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).  The first letters were sent on Aug. 12 and letters have been sent to other labs each month.  Recently, CMS reported it had sent cease-and-desist letters to …

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December 7, 2020 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News

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Supply chain issues associated with the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic are about to disrupt testing for other infectious diseases, ranging from strep throat and pneumonia to sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs). That was one important finding from the American Society for Microbiology’s (ASM) November survey of 134 microbiology labs around the country. More than half of the responding labs …

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Volume XXVII, No. 17 – December 7, 2020

IN A SURPRISING AND INSPIRING story, a Maine lab executive shares how his lab began preparations for COVID-19 in December 2019. Another lab’s story of pivoting from pathology testing to COVID-19 testing is equally instructional. And in other news, one CPT code has been used so often and for such high payments, it’s earned the title “fraudomatic” from an expert observer.

Volume XXVII, No. 16 – November 16, 2020

UNWELCOME CHANGES to how labs do business are forcing labs to cope with high demand for COVID-19 testing while dealing with government and private payers interfering with normal operating procedures. Medicare has new requirements and payment rates for COVID-19 tests. Also reported here are UnitedHealthcare’s new Laboratory Test Registry Protocol, and California’s new COVID-19 testing laboratory that is diverting lab instruments, supplies, and test kits away from hospital and independent labs in the state. 

Pooled COVID Testing a Success for New York Hospital Lab

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This is an excerpt of a 1,552-word article in the November 16, 2020 issue of THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: Pooled COVID testing helps the clinical lab staff at the hospital in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., do more COVID-19 tests when supplies might …

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