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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…
Pathologists Benefit from Hospital Lab Consulting
CEO SUMMARY: Deteriorating finances at many rural hospitals and smaller community hospitals is a growing trend. It is also a new consulting opportunity for local pathologists because financially-strapped hospitals often give their labs inadequate working capital and lack the staff needed …
Congress May Respond to Tough CLIA PT Penalties
CEO SUMMARY: For years, severe penalties in cases where a laboratory has inadvertently erred in handling proficiency testing (PT) specimens have been a point of contention between the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the clinical laboratory profession. Two bills prop…
Medi-Cal Hits Pathologist For $6.4 Million Payment
CEO SUMMARY: Once again, government health bureaucrats are overreaching in their efforts to reduce spending and collect money from any source. A California pathologist has been hit with a Medi-Cal demand for $6.4 million in repayments, simply because he served as laboratory director for t…
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Volume XXVII, No. 11 – August 3, 2020
WILL RETAIL BEHEMOTH AMAZON become a competitor in the clinical lab industry? With its plans to build COVID-19 testing labs and history of disrupting the marketplace, this is a distinct possibility, and it’s not just THE DARK REPORT that thinks so. Also, UHC is about to do some disrupting of its own with its new test code protocol.
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