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With LDT Rule Vacated, Labs Await FDA Retort
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 6 – April 21, 2025 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In a major win for clinical laboratories, a federal judge vacated the FDA’s final rule on LDTs, writing in his decision that the agency overstepped its authority. For now, labs can develop and modify LDTs without FDA oversight, but future action in some form…
Why Labs Should Comply with FDA’s Final Rule on LDTs
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 3 – February 17, 2025 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Even as lawsuits challenging the Laboratory Developed Test (LDT rule) issued by the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) progress in federal court, clinical labs performing LDTs face an interesting decision. Should they invest the staff time and money to comply with the…
129,624 Genetic Tests in the United States
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXXI, No. 16 – November 25, 2024 Issue
REGULATION OF LABORATORY DEVELOPED TESTS (LDTs) by the federal Food and Drug Administratio…
Physicians Tempted by Lure of In-Office Labs, Payers Balk
By Virchow | From the Volume XXXI, No. 14 – October 14, 2024 Issue
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Assessing the Clinical Service & Revenue Issues of the LDT Rule
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 12 – September 3, 2024 Issue
BARRING INTERVENTION BY FEDERAL COURTS OR THE U.S. Congress, clinical labo…
Language in Draft House Bill Directs FDA to Suspend LDT Rule
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 10 – July 22, 2024 Issue
THERE IS AN INTERESTING NEW DEVELOPMENT associated with the regulation of laboratory deve…
Several Times, Feds Tried to ‘Redirect’ Lab Activities
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 8 – June 10, 2024 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Regulation of laboratory developed tests (LDTs) by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may turn out to be one of the most impactful federal laws or regulations ever promulgated, so far as it pertains to clinical laboratories.cThe Dark Report provides this historical look b…
Artificial Intelligence and Executive War College
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXXI, No. 6 – April 29, 2024 Issue
By the time you read this our 29th annual Executive W…
FDA Issues Memo to Reclassify Many High Risk IVD Assays
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 5 – April 8, 2024 Issue
WAS IT AN EXPECTED FLOOD OF APPLICATIONS TO REVIEW laboratory de…
Labs Should Prepare for Arrival of ‘Perfect Storm’
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 3 – February 26, 2024 Issue
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…
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Volume XXXII, No. 6 – April 21, 2025
Now that a federal judge has vacated the FDA’s LDT rule, The Dark Report analyzes the judgement and notes the various steps the FDA could take in response. Also, lab testing at pharmacies is proving to be less successful than was once anticipated.
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