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Testing at Pharmacies Enters a Murky Future
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 6 – April 21, 2025 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Five years ago, it seemed a solid prediction that retail pharmacies would establish a stronghold in primary care and offer wider access to common diagnostic testing services that clinical laboratories provide. Fast forward to 2025, and the market does not look…
April 21, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 6 – April 21, 2025 Issue
The administration of President Donald Trump is calling for a $40 billion cut in funding to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), according to a report in The Washington Post on April 16. This amount would come from HHS discretionary spending,…
HHS Issues Final Rule to Deal with Information Blocking
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 11 – August 12, 2024 Issue
ANY HEALTHCARE PROVIDER DETERMINED TO HAVE COMMITTED “INFORMATION BLOCKING” can now be asse…
Change Healthcare Hit by Major Cyberattack
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 4 – March 18, 2024 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: It was a classic ransomware attack against Change Healthcare, the business unit of Optum that is itself a division of UnitedHealth Group. On Feb. 21, this cyberattack shut down critical systems at Change Healthcare, such as those involved in accepting and forwarding prescript…
September Saw 153% Increase in Ransomware Attacks
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, Number 1 – January 16, 2024 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Most ransomware attacks don’t generate news stories because the victimized organizations don’t want other threat actors to learn if they paid a ransom to regain access to their information systems. Experts point out that more cyberattacks are happening and that the attack…
Big Employers Sue Payers over Price Transparency
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, No. 12 – August 21, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Feeling they’ve been denied access by insurance companies to price data about medical claim payments, self-funded employer plans and unions are taking their health insurance companies…
Eight Macro Trends for Clinical Labs in 2023
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, No. 1 – January 3, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Laboratory administrators and pathologists will want to carefully study eight important trends that will guide their business strategies in 2023. Many of these macro trends center on financial and operational difficulties and ways to steer around these obstacles. Anothe…
Babson Diagnostics’ Hybrid Model Combines Quality, Convenience
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 16 – November 21, 2022 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Responding to its own data about consumer preferences, healthcare technology company Babson Diagnostics is pursuing a new hybrid model for blood draws that it believes brings together the best of clinical laboratories and retail pharmacies. Laboratory managers and patho…
U.S. Hospitals Will Lose Billions of Dollars in 2022
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 15 – October 31, 2022 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Hospitals and health systems in most regions of the United States are reporting substantial losses, both in patient care and in the value of their investment portfolios. This is inauspicious for the clinical laboratories operated by these hospitals. Hospital-bas…
Clinical Laboratories Face 20% Increase in CLIA Fees
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXIX, No. 12 – August 29, 2022 Issue
CHANGES HAVE BEEN PROPOSED to the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) that would raise fees by 20% for clinical laboratories and amend certain testing personnel qualifications. The American Hospital Association (AHA) has obj…
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Volume XXXII, No. 6 – April 21, 2025
Now that a federal judge has vacated the FDA’s LDT rule, The Dark Report analyzes the judgement and notes the various steps the FDA could take in response. Also, lab testing at pharmacies is proving to be less successful than was once anticipated.
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