Gene Testing Lab Goes ‘Cold Turkey,’ Stops Billing Health Plans

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII No. 6 – May 2, 2016 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Last year, Kailos Genetics stopped collecting third-party payment, dropped its prices sharply, and started marketing its genetic-screening tests directly to consumers and physicians. At the time, 100% of its revenue came from third-party payers. Today, it gets 100% of its rev…

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New ADLT Payment Rate May Force Lab to Close

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXII No. 15 – October 26, 2015 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Four Medicare Administrative Contractors currently pay $2,821 for CareDx’s AlloMap test. But under the proposal that CMS issued last month to overhaul the clinical lab fee schedule, CareDx would get only $644. Such a steep price cut would put the lab out of business because…

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May 06, 2013 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XX No. 6 – May 6, 2013 Issue

Much is happening in the anatomic pathology market in the Pacific Northwest. PAML, LLC (Spokane, Washington), and CellNetix (Seattle, Washington) finally executed the agreement whereby PAML made an equity investment in CellNetix. Now, the two lab companies will collaborate on developing…

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Leica, Aperio, Myriad, AMP, Hologic, Gen-Probe

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIX No. 12 – August 27, 2012 Issue

LEICA BIOSYSTEMS TO ACQUIRE APERIO FOR THE SECOND TIME IN AS MANY YEARS, a global leader in histology systems and products has announced that it will acquire one of the leading digital pathology companies. This time it is Leica Biosystems of Nussloch, German…

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Irish Labs Are at an Important Crossroads

By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XVII No. 7 – May 10, 2010 Issue

GLOBAL OUTSOURCING OF CLINICAL LABORATORY TESTING IN IRELAND has entered its second phase. The Irish Health Service Executive (HSE) granted Quest Diagnostics Incorporated a contract for an additional two-years of cervical cancer screening tests while…

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Sonic Health Wins Irish Contract for Pap Testing

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 7 – May 10, 2010 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Evidently the Irish Health Service is satisfied with its decision to outsource all the nation’s cervical cancer screening tests. In recent weeks, it announced that two international laboratory companies would handle Pap testing for the next two years. Sonic Healthc…

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Irish Labs Appeal to Keep Pap Smear Expertise

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVI No. 12 – August 31, 2009 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: In Ireland, pathologists are asking the government to return enough Pap tests back to the country to support and sustain medical training programs in gynecologic cytology. It was 2008 when the Irish government outsourced all Pap testing to a U.S. lab company. That forced Irel…

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San Diego MSA Selected For Medicare Lab Demo

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 15 – October 29, 2007 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Earlier this month, CMS revealed its selection of the first of two sites for the Medicare Competitive Bidding Demonstration Project for Laboratory Testing Services. It will be the San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos MSA (metropolitan statistical area). An assessment of this MSA rev…

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Are Two Blood Brothers Using Economic Clout?

By Robert Michel | From the Volume X No. 10 – July 28, 2003 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Quest Diagnostics Incorporated and Laboratory Corporation of America now dominate the national marketplace for testing referred by physicians’ offices. Release of their second quarter earnings reports provides the first look at their performance following the acquisitions i…

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Digene, Ivax Diagnostics, Myriad Genetics, Bioscientia, LabOne, Aetna

By Robert Michel

ROTARY CLUBS LAUNCH MEXICO-BASED CERVICAL SCREENING EFFORT IN MEXICO, Rotary International will attack the problem of cervical cancer among Mexican women by supporting a screening program that utilizes human papillomavirus (HPV) testing. Called “Test for Life,” the prog…

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