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FDA Issues Response to Draft Legislation to Regulate LDTs
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXV No. 12 – August 20, 2018 Issue
DURING HER ADDRESS TO THE ANNUAL MEETING of the American Clinical Laboratory Association meeting in March, Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) explained why she and others in Congress had developed the Diagnostic Accuracy and Innovation Act (DAIA), a discussion draft that would give the FDA…
AMA, AHA Join Labs to Request Delay, Fix
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIV No. 14 – October 9, 2017 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In what may be a first for the clinical lab industry, the American Medical Association and the American Hospital Association joined with 20 other healthcare associations to ask CMS Administrator Seema Verma to address the problems with the CMS proposal involving Medicare Part B f…
January 22, 2013 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XX No. 1 – January 22, 2013 Issue
Not-for-profit Boston Children’s Hospital will have majority interest in a new lab testing company. Claritas Genomics will be based in Waltham, Massachusetts, and will develop genetic and molecular diagnostic testing solutions. Life Technologies Corporation…
More Medicare Auditors Are Targeting Clinical Labs
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XIX No. 16 – November 19, 2012 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: For labs and all healthcare providers, the risk of an audit is growing because the number of auditors seeking overpayments is rising. In their efforts to eliminate waste and make the Medicare and state Medicaid programs more efficient, federal officials have introduced severa…
CLMA Asks Labs for Examples of RAC Auditor Overreach
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XIX No. 13 – September 17, 2012 Issue
STORIES ABOUT HOW PRIVATE MEDICARE AUDITORS are overreaching in their zeal to identify fraud have caught the attention of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee. It is asking providers to submit examples of overzealous RAC auditors. For its part, the Clinical Laboratory Management Association …
Congress May Respond to Tough CLIA PT Penalties
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XIX No. 11 – August 6, 2012 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: For years, severe penalties in cases where a laboratory has inadvertently erred in handling proficiency testing (PT) specimens have been a point of contention between the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the clinical laboratory profession. Two bills prop…
Thermo Fisher, Intrinsic Bioprobes, Kaiser Permanente, UCSF, CLMA, ASCLS
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVIII No. 13 – September 26, 2011 Issue
THERMO FISHER BUYS INTRINSIC BIOPROBES, CONTINUES BUYING SPREE IT’S ANOTHER ACQUISITION FOR Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., of Waltham, Massachusetts. It purchased Intrinsic Bioprobes, Inc., of Rochester, New York, earlier this month. A m…
December 14, 2009 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVI No. 17 – December 14, 2009 Issue
In Nigeria, there is an aggressive effort underway to raise the quality of medical laboratory testing. One major element involves inspection of clinical laboratories throughout the nation by teams of laboratory professionals working with the Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria …
July 20, 2009 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVI No. 10 – July 20, 2009 Issue
Larry Siedlick resigned as CEO of Sunrise Medical Laboratories in Hauppauge, New York, effective June 30. It was 2007 when Siedlick and partner Pat Lanza sold their interest in the laboratory they founded back in 1972 to Sonic Healthcare, Ltd. Siedlick tells THE DARK…
Phlebotomists in Calif. Undergoing Certification
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XII No. 8 – May 30, 2005 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: State certification of phlebotomists is under way in the Golden State. By April 9, 2006, all phlebotomists in California will need to maintain state certification. This development adds complexity to laboratory management in California. However, there are no signs that other …
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