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Payers Request More Claims Documentation

CEO SUMMARY: Both anecdotal evidence from lab professionals and numbers-based data from XiFin point to a problem: More payers require clinical labs to produce more documentation that a test claim i…

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Major Events on Horizon to Reshape Lab Market

CEO SUMMARY: Speakers at last monthā€™s Executive War College discussed a range of significant trends and changes happening today in the U.S. healthcare system. Two of the most important trends are …

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AACC Changes Name to ADLM, Seeking to Broaden Appeal

HOPING TO BROADEN ITS INFLUENCE IN THE LABORATORY INDUSTRY, the American Association of Clinical Chemistry (AACC) …

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Lab Execs Allegedly Lied to FDA about Faulty Tests

CEO SUMMARY: Three former executives of a lab testing company face criminal charges. Federal prosecutors claim that the three plaintiffs who previously worked at Magellan Diagnostics flagrantly hid…

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Quest, Labcorp Both Report Growth in Base Lab Business

DURING THE LATEST QUARTERLY EARNINGS REPORTS from Quest Diagnostics and Labcorp, it was largely ā€œsame old, same oldā€ as base business continues to improve post-pandemic, while C…

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May 8, 2023, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News

Responding to the need to expand access to training for diagnostic testing professionals, the CDC’s Division of Laboratory Systems has launched OneLab TEST (Timely Education and Support of Testers)….

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New Primary Care Providers May Change Who Buys & Who Orders Lab Tests

This is an excerpt of a 2,445-word article in the June 14, 2021 issue of Ā THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: This first installment in our series describes why market forces are at work to create a new playe…

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MedPAC Advises Congress on Lab-Data Reporting

CEO SUMMARY: For years, the clinical lab industry has sought unsuccessfully to get the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to address the inequities in the payment formula CMS adopted after Congress passed the Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA). In April, the la…

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New Players May Alter Who Buys & Who Orders Lab Tests

CEO SUMMARY: This first installment in our series describes why market forces are at work to create a new player in healthcare that will transform the lab testing marketplace as we know it today in two ways. First, a new category of primary care providers has the potential to eventu…

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UnitedHealthCareā€™s New Policy Further Narrows Its Lab Network

UNITEDHEALTHCARE’S (UHC) RECENT MOVEĀ to designate certain clinical and anatomic pathology laboratories as Designated Diagnostic ProvidersĀ appears to be yet one more way that the insurer is narrowing its network. Effective July 1, 2021, and subject to st…

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