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Quest to Buy Outreach Lab from Hartford Health System
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXII, Number 16 – November 16, 2015 Issue
MORE LAB CONSOLIDATION is happening in Connecticut. Last week, Quest Diagnostics Incorporated announced it will purchase the outreach laboratory business of Clinical Laboratory Partners. CLP is a division of Hartford HealthCare, a health system with …
Lab Professionals Long Knew of Challenges at Theranos
By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXII No. 15 – October 26, 2015 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: As THE DARK REPORT has continually reported, pathologists and medical laboratory professionals in the San Francisco and Phoenix markets were aware for most of the past year that Theranos was not delivering to patients and consumers the specific lab testing services it regula…
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…
Lab Professionals Knew of Challenges at Theranos
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXII No. 15 – October 26, 2015 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: For most of the past year, pathologists and medical laboratory professionals in the San Francisco and Phoenix markets were aware that Theranos was not delivering to patients and consumers the specific lab testing services it regularly touted in news stories and at conferences…
WSJ ‘Sticks’ Theranos, Raises Serious Questions
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXII No. 15 – October 26, 2015 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Following months of investigation, reporter John Carreyrou of The Wall Street Journal published back-to-back reports about aspects of Theranos that the…
October 26, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXII No. 15 – October 26, 2015 Issue
Describing “nutritional chemistry and food safety as an exciting growth opportunity,†CEO David King of Laboratory Corporation of America announced his company’s recent acquisition of International Food Network and The National Food Laboratory. Terms of the deal were not announced. Some analys…
Tasso’s Device Collects Capillary Blood for Testing
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXII No. 14 – October 5, 2015 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In Seattle, Tasso Inc., a start-up company, is developing a device that adheres to the skin and collects capillary blood that can be used for lab testing. Tasso says the device is a less invasive than a venipuncture. At the same time, executives at Tasso recognize that, for m…
October 5, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXII No. 14 – October 5, 2015 Issue
More venture capital money is moving into the medical laboratory industry in India. In September, Metropolis Healthcare Ltd of Mumbai, India, disclosed that Carlyle, a private equity company, had purchased a 36.5% ownership interest in the lab company. In April, Warburg Pincus …
Hospital Lab Shares Ten Ways to Create Value with Lab Tests
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXII No. 14 – October 5, 2015 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Across the nation, labs in hospitals and health systems are feeling pressure from shrinking lab budgets and the need to be a contributor to the integration of clinical care. At Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, the clinical laboratory and department of pathology have respo…
Labs Have Questions for CMS on Proposed Rule
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXII No. 14 – October 5, 2015 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: On September 25, CMS took a long overdue step to issue a proposed rule on how medical laboratories are to report private market prices for lab tests to the Medicare program during 2016. The proposed rule provides insights as to how CMS envisions pricing new tests and advanced…
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