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Payers Asking for Repayment When Labs Waive Fees
CEO SUMMARY: Health insurers appear to have stepped up their efforts to warn clinical laboratories not to waive patients’ fees in return for specimen referrals. Consultants also say that payers are increasing enforcement efforts. There are cases where, when insurers discover labs have n…
Payers Using Two Approaches To Price Molecular, Genetic Tests
PRIVATE PAYERS AND MEDICARE contractors are taking divergent approaches to establishing coverage policies and setting prices for molecular and genetic tests. That’s what Kuo Bianchini Tong, MS, CEO of Quorum Consulting Inc., sees happening. “One approach seeks to recognize the c…
NY Times Asks: ‘Is Lab Testing the Wild West?’
HOW MANY OF YOU SAW THE NEWS STORY PUBLISHED LAST MONTH by The Wall Street Journal with the headline, “Is Lab Testing the ‘Wild West’ of Medicine?” It is the latest in a series of news stories about issues and questions involving the accuracy and quality of clinical laboratory tests …
Letter from Congress to CMS Asks for Delay in PAMA Reporting
CLINICAL LABORATORY ASSOCIATIONS are using a letter-writing campaign to members of Congress as a last-minute Hail Mary attempt to head off the controversial lab price market reporting rule that CMS intends to implement after January 1. Both Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. House of Representati…
Lab Stakeholders Take Action to Prevent Drastic Cuts in the Medicare Lab Fee Schedule
WITH MANY CLINICAL LABORATORY STAKEHOLDERS anticipating major revenue shortfalls due to the Protecting Access to Medicare Act lab test mar…
Cleveland Clinic and related lab sue True Health Diagnostics
THE DARK REPORT is the only lab industry news source to recognize the significance of the lawsuit between the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Cleveland HeartLab against a new lab company, True Health Diagnostics. It is the latest chapter in a string…
DAT: Should Patients Have Access to All Laboratory Tests?
CEO SUMMARY: Arizona’s new direct access testing law allows consumers and patients to have access to all laboratory tests without a physicians’ order. But one lab company decided not to offer all lab tests to consumers. Instead, executives at Sonora Quest Laboratories recognize that, …
WSJ ‘Sticks’ Theranos, Raises Serious Questions
CEO SUMMARY: Following months of investigation, reporter John Carreyrou of The Wall Street Journal published back-to-back reports about aspects of Theranos that the…
Lab Professionals Knew of Challenges at Theranos
CEO SUMMARY: For most of the past year, pathologists and medical laboratory professionals in the San Francisco and Phoenix markets were aware that Theranos was not delivering to patients and consumers the specific lab testing services it regularly touted in news stories and at conferences…
New Developments in $1 Billion Lab Fraud Case
CEO SUMMARY: Court documents filed last month in the federal qui tam case against Health Diagnostic Laboratory, Singulex, Berkeley Heart Lab, BlueWave Healthcare Consultants, and several lab executives allege that the defendants used illegal inducements and kickbacks to file false c…
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