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Upcoming Executive War College to Cover Important Lab Trends
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 4 – March 10, 2025 Issue
New developments now changing the landscape in health-care and the clinical laboratory market will be addressed at the upcoming 30th Annual Executive War College on Diagnostic, Clinical Laboratory, and Pathology Management that happens on April 29-30, 20…
Grim Realities Drive Payer Behavior with Lab Test Claims
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 3 – February 17, 2025 Issue
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Federal Lawsuit Favors Lab Accused of AKS Violations
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 2 – January 27, 2025 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: This whistleblower lawsuit initially charged a clinical lab with, among other things, violating the Anti-Kickback Statute and EKRA. After the judge ruled to exclude the AKS and EKRA claims, the whistleblower refiled the case and included claims the lab paid commissions for th…
Lawsuits Challenge Business Practices of Health Plans
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXXI, No. 17 – December 16, 2024 Issue
IT MAY BE THAT SEVERAL RECENT FEDERAL LAWS AND RULES ON TRANSPARENCY IN HEALTHCARE are allowing aggrieved parties to pull back the curtain on unsavory practices at certain health insurance companies. Both self-insured employers and the employees of these companies are filing lawsuits claiming that pa…
Lab Innovators in Europe Have Solutions for USA
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 13 – September 23, 2024 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Rapid advances in a wide range of technologies over the past 15 years are enabling entrepreneurs to create transformative products for use by clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology groups. The Dark Report recently toured Europe to visit several such innovative companies…
Lab Market Fragmenting, Creating New Opportunities
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 5 – April 8, 2024 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Even as consolidation continues in the ownership of hospitals, health systems, office-based physicians, and clinical laboratories, there is a powerful trend of fragmentation quietly transforming the way providers—including clinical labs and pathology groups—serve patient…
Why Many Patients Cannot Pay for Their Lab Tests
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXX, Number 15 – October 23, 2023 Issue
IT IS WIDELY RECOGNIZED THAT GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE PAYERS STEADILY NIBBLE AWAY at what they reimburse clinical laboratories and anatomic pathologists. Lowering the prices paid for tests, excluding labs from networks, and declining to grant coverage for new lab tests are just a few of the tactics use…
‘Virchow’ Is Your New Source of Managed Care Insights
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXX, No. 11 – July 31, 2023 Issue
WE ARE UNVEILING A VALUABLE INTELLIGENCE RESOURCE FOR YOU. It is a new commentary focused exclusively on managed care contracting for diagnostic services provided by clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology gr…
All Labs Are Threatened by Encryption, Ransomware
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 12 – September 7, 2021 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Cybercrime—in the form of encryption attacks followed by ransom demands—is now a threat to every clinical laboratory and anatomic pathology group in the United States. Experts recommend that all labs elevate the attention they pay to their incident response teams ta…
All Labs Are Threatened by Ransomware Attacks
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 12 – September 7, 2021 Issue
This is an excerpt of a 1,652-word article in the September 7, 2021 issue of THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: Cybercrime—in the form of encryption attacks followed by ransom demands—is now a threat to…
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Volume XXXII, No. 4 – March 10, 2025
A bold new technology has entered the European lab marketplace, with the introduction of an autonomous robotic phlebotomy device, already in service at a Netherlands hospital. Also, The Dark Report announces its sale to LabX Media Group of Ontario Canada.
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