December 20, 2021 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 17 – December 20, 2021 Issue

In Europe, Switzerland-based Unilabs will be acquired by a Danish company. Unilabs owns laboratories in at least 11 European countries and posted revenue of €2 billion euros (US $2.26 billion) in the financial year ending September. The seller is Apax Partners, a private equity compan…

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December 7, 2020 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVII, No. 17 – December 7, 2020 Issue

Supply chain issues associated with the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic are about to disrupt testing for other infectious diseases, ranging from strep throat and pneumonia to sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs). That was one important finding from the American Society for Microbiology’s (ASM) November …

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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 …

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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…

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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…

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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 …

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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…

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