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Labs Should Prepare for Arrival of ‘Perfect Storm’
CEO SUMMARY: In the near future, clinical labs and pathology groups will need to address three major developments. One involves the FDA proposed LDT rule. A second is the adoption by payers of guidelines that require genetic test claims to have Z-Codes. The third centers around coming ref…
CMS Ends Remote Reading of Pathology Glass Slides
CEO SUMMARY: On the day the federal government ended the public health emergency for SARS-CoV-2, CMS issued an updated FAQ that ended the allowance for remote reviews of glass slides…
CLIA Lab Director Testimony Shows Risks to Pathologists
CEO SUMMARY: Elizabeth Holmes’ criminal trial is a case study for clinical lab directors in how not to run a medical lab, according to an attorney with 30 years of advising labs on CLIA-enforcement issues. During the trial, federal prosecutors cited the Clinical Laboratory Improve…
Amazon Now Interested in Home Testing Services
CEO SUMMARY: In the past year, internet retailing giant Amazon has built sizeable clinical laboratories in the United States and the United Kingdom. Now it has regulatory clearance to sell a molecular COVID-19 test to consumers for home collection. Comments made in the past month by…
CLIA Lab Inspections Different Because of COVID-19 Pandemic
WITH THE ONSET OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN MARCH, three of the major organizations deemed to have CLIA status suspended inspections of clinical laboratories for several months. Inspections and assessments of laboratories have restarted, but with significant changes because of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak….
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…
Lab’s Low Gene Test Price Gets Insurers’ Attention
CEO SUMMARY: At a time when most molecular and genetic testing companies are struggling to gain coverage for their tests, this Silicon Valley-based lab company has become an in-network lab provider for a number of health insurers—including three of the nation’s largest payers. It did …
California company shows labs the way with low genetic testing cost
This is an excerpt from a 1,485-word article in the June 5, 2017 issue of THE DARK REPORT. The complete article is available for a limited time to all readers, and available at all times to paid members of the Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: At a time when most molecular and gene…
Walgreens To Go National with Lab Tests in Stores
CEO SUMMARY: A disruptive innovation is one that shakes up an entire market or industry. By adding clinical lab testing to its health services offerings in more than 8,100 stores nationwide, Walgreens could disrupt the status quo in the clinical lab industry. Walgreens says its lab partne…
Theranos Won’t Discuss Disruptive Lab Technology
CEO SUMMARY: In a partnership with Walgreens pharmacies, Theranos Inc. announced that it will run clinical lab tests on “micro-samples” and collect these blood samples without venipuncture. Even as Theranos touts the patient-friendly benefits of its proprietary diagnostic technology, …
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Volume XXXI, No. 13 – September 23, 2024
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