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Top 10 2020 Lab Stories Are about More than Just COVID-19
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVII, No. 18 – December 28, 2020 Issue
This is an excerpt of a 3,689-word article in the December 28, 2020 issue of THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: There are several surprises in The Dark R…
Managing Labs in Two Dimensions in 2021
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXVII, No. 18 – December 28, 2020 Issue
EXPECT 2021 TO BE JUST AS CHALLENGING A YEAR for lab management as was 2020. This will be true not only because of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Other important factors will complicate the operation of clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology groups in the new year….
2020’s Top 10 Lab Stories Are Without Precedent!
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVII, No. 18 – December 28, 2020 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: There are several surprises in The Dark Report’s list of the Top 10 Lab Stories for 2020. Despite the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic dominating every aspect of clinical care, social…
UK Postpones Mass COVID Testing Plan Due to Questions of Accuracy
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVII, No. 18 – December 28, 2020 Issue
IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, A MASS COVID-19 TESTING PLAN called “Operation Moonshot” is on hold until at least the end of January. Under the plan, health ministers sought to increase daily SARS-CoV-2 testing from 430,000 to 10 million Englanders per day. …
NorDx Lab Started COVID Preparation in 2019
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVII, No. 17 – December 7, 2020 Issue
This is an excerpt of a 2,995-word article in the December 7, 2020 issue of THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: In a remarkable example of prescience, informed by decades-long experience in clinical lab testin…
NorDx Lab Started to Prepare for COVID-19 Testing in 2019
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXVII, No. 17 – December 7, 2020 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In a remarkable example of prescience, informed by decades-long experience in clinical lab testing and past epidemics, the president of NorDx Laboratories in Maine saw the December news accounts of a widespread outbreak of a new respiratory disease in China. He warned h…
Pooled COVID Testing a Success for New York Hospital Lab
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVII, No. 16 – November 16, 2020 Issue
This is an excerpt of a 1,552-word article in the November 16, 2020 issue of THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: Pooled COVID testing helps the clinical lab staff at the hospital in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., do …
COVID-19 or Not, Lab Market Enters ‘Twilight Zone’
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXVII, No. 16 – November 16, 2020 Issue
Our healthcare system is in a most remarkable state. Even as all providers—including clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology groups—continue to devote considerable resources to meeting the urgent need for SARS-CoV-2 testing, health insurers and regulators continue to issue new requirements g…
NY Hospital Lab Succeeds with Pooled COVID-19 Testing
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVII, No. 16 – November 16, 2020 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Pooled testing helps the clinical lab staff at the hospital in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., do more COVID-19 tests when supplies might otherwise run short. Lab managers estimate this method has saved 5,000 test cartridges since May. Pooled testing also helps the physician st…
Medicare COVID Test Coding May Become a ‘Logistical Nightmare’
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVII, No. 16 – November 16, 2020 Issue
STARTING JAN. 1, 2021, clinical laboratories performing COVID-19 tests using high-throughput systems for Medicare patients must comply with a complex new coding rule when submitting claims for these tests. The federal Centers for Med…
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Volume XXVII, No. 18 – December 28, 2020
There are several surprises in The Dark Report’s annual list of the Top 10 Lab Stories for 2020. Despite the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic dominating every aspect of clinical care, social life, and economic activities since March, at least one major health insurer pushed ahead with two major policies governing how labs can submit claims. In another big story, for the first time in decades, the federal Anti-Kickback Statute and the Stark Law were revised with new final rules. Also, Medicare lab test spending increased in 2019 despite PAMA cuts.
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