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

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 8 – June 14, 2021 Issue

This is an excerpt of a 2,445-word article in the June 14, 2021 issue of  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

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 8 – June 14, 2021 Issue

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

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 8 – June 14, 2021 Issue

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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Ransomware Attacks Target Vulnerable Healthcare Providers

By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 7 – May 24, 2021 Issue

This is an excerpt of a 1,923-word article in the May 24, 2021 issue of  THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: Both malware and ransomware have been around for a number of years. But the attacks launched today …

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Predicting Future Demand for COVID-19 Testing

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 7 – May 24, 2021 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: After 15 months of the pandemic, the nation’s clinical laboratories are at an interesting crossroads. Is the COVID-19 outbreak diminishing and close to disappearing? Or might it intensify again, particularly when the traditional influenza season arrives next fall? The…

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Ransomware Attackers Target Health Providers

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 7 – May 24, 2021 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Both malware and ransomware have been around for a number of years. But the attacks launched today against healthcare providers are more sophisticated and better at achieving the total shutdown of targeted hospitals, doctor groups, and clinical laboratories. For this re…

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Preparing Your Lab for Post-Pandemic Success

By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 6 – May 3, 2021 Issue

MOST OF US WOULD CONSIDER IT GOOD NEWS that the number of Americans vaccinated continues to grow even as the daily number of new COVID-19 cases and deaths has fallen since its peak last winter.  Data from USAFacts.com, a website developed by teams…

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BioReference Labs to Use Gestalt for Digital Pathology

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 6 – May 3, 2021 Issue

ONE OF THE NATION’S LARGEST CLINICAL LABORATORIEScis moving forward with plans to expand its use of digital pathology and whole-slide imaging. On Mar. 30, it was announced that BioReference Laboratories, Inc. would move forward with Gestalt Diagnostics’ PathFlow digital pathology solu…

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Lab Briefs

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 6 – May 3, 2021 Issue

Lighthouse Lab Services Acquires Vachette Pathology Last month, it was announced that Lighthouse Lab Services of Charlotte, N.C., had acquired Vachette Pathology of Sylvania, Ohio. Price and terms of the acquisition were not d…

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UnitedHealthCare’s New Policy Further Narrows Its Lab Network

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 6 – May 3, 2021 Issue

UNITEDHEALTHCARE’S (UHC) RECENT MOVE to designate certain clinical and anatomic pathology laboratories as Designated Diagnostic Providers 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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