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Newsmaker Interview: Healthcare’s Transformation Now Bringing Changes to Lab Industry
“Today, patients want to get diagnosis and treatment faster with fewer visits to the doctor’s office. They want speedier and more comprehensive delivery of clinical services, be it laboratory tests, imaging, or other procedures.” …
NILA: CLIA Proposal Doesn’t Address Flaws
CEO SUMMARY: For many years, NILA has urged the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to make significant changes in CLIA regulations. Yet, in its recent request for information, CMS addressed five specific areas. But the federal agency left out the need for a comprehensive o…
After Two Decades, CMS Wants to Update CLIA Lab Regulations
IN THE FIRST EFFORT OF ITS kIND in more than two decades, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has published a request for information (RFI) in the Federal Register as a first step to revise the CLIA rules it promulgated in 1992. Over the years, CMS has made some m…
CMS Extends Reporting of Payer Prices by 60 Days
CEO SUMMARY: Last Thursday, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said it was extending the deadline for certain labs to report their private payer lab test prices by an additional 60 days, until May 30. Statements by CMS officials indicate that either or both the number …
CMS CLIA Sanction Letter Sent To Theranos Raises Questions
CITING PRACTICES THAT JEOPARDIZE PATIENT SAFETY, the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services decided earlier this month to revoke the CLIA certificate that it granted to Theranos Inc. to operate a clinical laboratory in Newark, Calif., and to ban the lab…
Theranos Now Scrambling To Save What It Can
CEO SUMMARY: On July 7, CMS imposed severe sanctions on Theranos for CLIA violations. Included is a two-year ban on owning and operating a clinical laboratory for Theranos, CEO Elizabeth Holmes, the former COO, and the former medical director. Theranos appears to be pivoting away from a c…
Is Theranos Kowtowing To CMS over Pending CLIA Sanctions?
CEO SUMMARY: Having ignored the profession of laboratory medicine for nearly all of its 13-year corporate life, Theranos suddenly began engaging with expert laboratorians last month. The timing of this new outreach coincides with public disclosure that CMS proposed the severest sanctions …
Theranos in the News, for Better and Worse
IT’S BEEN AN EVENTFUL COUPLE OF MONTHS for Theranos, the lab testing company that says its goal is to disrupt the clinical laboratory industry. Novelists cannot write fiction as compelling as the unfolding real story about this controversial company. During March and April, The Wall Street Jou…
Theranos Saga Just Keeps Getting More Intriguing
This is an excerpt from a 400-word article in the May 2 issue of THE DARK REPORT. The complete article is available paid members of the Dark Intelligence Group. …
Labs React with Criticism to Proposed ADLT Rule
CEO SUMMARY: Some in the lab industry had high hopes that passage of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA) last year would favorably resolve a number of important issues. However, those hopes were dashed following the September 25 release by CMS of a proposed rule setting out how i…
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