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Anatomic Pathology Profession Faces Challenges, Opportunities
CEO SUMMARY: For 10 years, three primary trends have reshaped the anatomic pathology profession. They are declining reimbursement, competition from physicians establishing in-office pathology labs, and a host of new government laws and regulations. More changes are coming, predicts one bu…
July 25, 2016 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
Throughout the profession of laboratory medicine, concern is surfacing following publication of a proposed rule by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) that would expand the authority of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) to supervise and perform laboratory testing. This …
July 5, 2016 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
More developments haveĀ happened at Theranos, Inc., the beleaguered clinical lab company based in Palo Alto, California. On June 24, Brook Buchanan, Vice President of Communications at Theranos, resigned, giving personal reasons for the decision. Buchanan was hired in November 2015, …
June 13, 2016 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
Life insurers are adopting healthcare big data as part of their underwriting process and clinical laboratory test data has an important role. Quest Diagnostics Incorporated participates in this business line. Huffington Post recently published a story on this topic and ident…
May 23, 2016 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
Patients of HealthĀ Diagnostic LaboratoriesĀ who were tested between 2009 and 2014 are now being dunned by a collection agency! Creditors in the HDL bankruptcy case have engaged a Florida collection agency to go after 9,000 accounts. As reported by The Wall Street Journal, t…
Theranos in the News, for Better and Worse
ITāS BEEN AN EVENTFUL COUPLE OF MONTHS for Theranos, the lab testing company that says its goal is to disrupt the clinical laboratory industry. Novelists cannot write fiction as compelling as the unfolding real story about this controversial company. During March and April, The Wall Street Jou…
May 2, 2016 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
Like the Sword ofĀ Damocles of Greek myth, market price reporting by labs under the Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA) continues to hang over the heads of the nationās clinical laboratories. However, instead of a threat, PAMA market price reporting may soon become a reality. News reports indi…
April 11, 2016 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
Tonya Mallory is back inĀ the news and this timeĀ she is teaming up with theĀ former CEO of Bon SecoursĀ Virginia to launch a newĀ healthcare company. MalloryĀ was formerly CEO of HealthĀ Diagnostic Laboratory ofĀ Richmond, Virginia. This isĀ the lab…
March 21, 2016 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
Tougher times in theĀ clinical lab testing market have claimed another lab company. On February 28, Artherotech, Inc., posted a notice on its website stating that it had closed permanently, as of that date. Along with its several hundred employees, Artherotechās closure caught many…
February 29, 2016 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
Sandy, Utah-based SureĀ Genomics is the latest genetic testing company to get a letter from the Food and Drug Administration asking why the company is marketing its SureDNA genetic testing kit to consumers without first obtaining clearance from the federal agency. Th…
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Volume XXXI, No. 6 – April 29, 2024
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