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Negotiating Path Contracts with Hospitals, Third Parties
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 2 – January 27, 2025 Issue
PART THREE OF A SERIES TO HELP ANATOMIC PATHOLOGY GROUPS THRIVE AND PROSPER during these challenging times, The Dark Report presents this third installment in a series that identifies clinical, operational, and financial strategies pathology groups…
February 26, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 3 – February 26, 2024 Issue
Following an investment of $1.75 million, officials at University of Maine at Augusta (UMA) opened a new lab facility this month that allows it to double the number of medical laboratory technicians it can train, from eight to 10 to as many as 20. In its coverage of the new training …
CLIA Lab Directors Must Watch Delegated Duties
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, Number 17 – December 4, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Laboratory accredito…
Proficiency Testing Ranks High as a CLIA Violation
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, Number 15 – October 23, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Proficiency testing (PT) deficiencies are consistently cited by clinical laboratory accreditors during CLIA inspections. Surveyors and inspectors note that labs may mistakenly believe that an 80% score on a PT event is satisfactory. To the contrary, experts advise labs to scr…
Competency Assessments Prove To Be a Nagging CLIA Deficiency
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX, No. 11 – July 31, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Competency assessment problems rank high among frequently cited deficiencies during CLIA inspections. Representatives from the CAP, COLA, and The Joint Commission explain what areas to…
CMS: TJC Made ‘Business Decision’ to Not Recognize COLA
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX, No. 9 – June 19, 2023 Issue
Following up on a prior briefing, The Dark Report has learned that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) does not appear to hav…
CLIA Lab Accreditors Reveal Most Frequent Deficiencies
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX, No. 8 – May 30, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: CAP, The Joint Commission, COLA, and A2LA took the stage at the recent Executive War College to detail their respective lists of the 10 most often-cited standards during…
Alert! Changes to CLIA Accreditation, CLIA Revisions
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXX No. 2 – January 23, 2023 Issue
MEDICAL LABORATORIES HAVE LIVED WITH THE REGULATIONS FOR THE CLINICAL LABORATORY IMPROVEMENTS AMENDMENTS (CLIA) since they were first implemented in 1992. Over the past 30 years there has been no major revision or updating of CLIA regulations. Nor has there been much change in the long-standing statu…
COLA Re-enters CLIA Accreditation for Pathology
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 5 – April 4, 2022 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: COLA again h…
New Trends Reshaping Healthcare, Lab Testing
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 4 – March 14, 2022 Issue
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