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Understanding Key Parts of New AKS, Stark Law Rules
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 4 – March 22, 2021 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Both the federal Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute have been revised and the final rules became effective on Jan. 19. The good news for clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology groups is that federal regulators from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services a…
Regulators Acted Slowly as Labs Developed Tests for Coronavirus
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXVII No. 5 – March 30, 2020 Issue
WHEN THE FIRST DEATHS FROM THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS were reported in Seattle beginning on Feb. 29, Helen Chu, MD, MPH, took notice. An infectious disease expert at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Chu is a director with the Seattle Flu Study. Since…
First EKRA Guilty Plea Involves Lab Kickback
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXVII No. 3 – February 17, 2020 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Federal investigators wasted little time in using the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act of 2018 (EKRA) to prosecute fraud involving clinical laboratories and providers. The manager of an opioid treatment center in Kentucky pleaded guilty last month to three counts…
Digital Pathology Systems Will Create Opportunities
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXIV No. 7 – May 15, 2017 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Advanced Pathology Associates, a 15-member private pathology group practice, had the distinction of generating data for the clinical study that Philips submitted to the Food and Drug Administra…
Calloway Labs Settles with Feds, West Virginia
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXI No. 8 – June 9, 2014 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: West Virginia is the second state in recent years to settle claims of Medicare and Medicaid fraud filed against Calloway Laboratories of Woburn, Massachusetts. Last month, the pain management lab company agreed to pay $4.675 million to resolve that case, while not admitting l…
FDA Wants Abbott Labs To Toe Regulatory Line
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VI No. 14 – October 11, 1999 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In the short term, it’s Abbott Laboratories which must deal with increasingly aggressive FDA regulators. But the real story behind the story is that the FDA is stepping up regulatory oversight of the entire diagnostics industry. Abbott faces serious consequences if it canno…
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