CAP Loses CLIA Accreditation Clients to Joint Commission

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 1 – January 19, 2021 Issue

This is an excerpt of a 1,790-word article in the January 19, 2021 issue of  THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: Over the past 18 months, several prominent national health systems decided to shift their CLIA …

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2021 Opens with a Major Story … and It’s Not COVID!

By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 1 – January 19, 2021 Issue

On the pages that follow, you will learn about a major story in the clinical laboratory…

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CAP Loses Accreditation Clients to Joint Commission

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 1 – January 19, 2021 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Over the past 18 months, several prominent national health systems decided to shift their CLIA laboratory accreditation services away from the College of American Pathologists and to The Joint Commission. These shifts from one accrediting body to another will involve hu…

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Why Are Health Systems Changing CLIA Accreditors?

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 1 – January 19, 2021 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: It is uncommon for a major health system to switch its CLIA lab accreditation business from one accrediting body to another. Yet, just in the past 18 months, that decision was made by the Veterans Administration, Ascension Health, and Providence Health. This is an impor…

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Understanding Differences Between 2 CLIA Accreditors

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 1 – January 19, 2021 Issue

MAJOR CHANGES ARE HAPPENING IN THE COMPETITIVE MARKET for CLIA accreditation of hospital laboratories. Some health systems representing hundreds of hospitals have shifted from using the College of American Pathologists (CAP) to using The Joint Commission (TJC) to meet the accreditation …

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Much Disruption for Labs In 2016’s Top 10 Stories

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIII, No. 17 – December 19, 2016 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Within THE DARK REPORT’S list of the Top 10 Lab Industry Stories for 2016 is one story of disruption that might have been one story of disruption about to happen. The disintegration of Theranos during 2016 is the big story about a self-proclaimed disruptor of the lab indust…

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First CAP 15189 Accreditation for a Children’s Hospital Lab

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII No. 13 – September 26, 2016 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: It’s now official. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is the first children’s hospital to earn accreditation to ISO 15189 under the College of American Pathologists. What is more interesting, however, is how lab leadership used the quality management system of ISO 15…

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COLA Questions UHC on BeaconLBS Accredit Rules

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXII No. 6 – April 20, 2015 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: UnitedHealthcare’s ‘Laboratories of Choice’ network in Florida accepts only labs accredited by the College of American Pathologists and The Joint Commission. In March, COLA wrote to UnitedHealth to question this policy which excludes labs accredited by the five other…

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Achieving CLIA, ISO 15189 at Same Time with A2LA

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXII No. 3 – February 17, 2015 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: An interesting milestone for the clinical lab industry is on the horizon. Physicians Choice Laboratory Services in South Carolina will soon become one of the first lab organizations in the United States to earn joint CLIA and ISO 15189 accreditations with the America…

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Top 10 2014 Biggest News Stories

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXI No. 17 – December 15, 2014 Issue

Story no.1 SGR Fix by Congress Spawns PAMA; Lab Industry Wary of Law’s Impact ON APRIL 1, PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA signed into law the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (PAMA). As written, it has the potential to be the most impactful federal legislation on the clinical lab industry s…

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