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January 12, 2009 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVI No. 1 – January 12, 2009 Issue
Here’s an interesting quirk. It seems none of the major lab professional associations and societies have yet to alert their members to last week’s national news about inaccurate Vitamin D test results at Quest Diagnostics Incorporated. At least, that was true today, based on vis…
December 22, 2008 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 17 – December 22, 2008 Issue
Last Thursday, Sunquest Information Systems, Inc. of Tucson, Arizona, announced that it would purchase the “Outreach Advantage Solution” software system developed by Pathology Associates Medical Laborator ies of Spokane, Washington. PAML has spent most of this de…
December 01, 2008 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 16 – December 01, 2008 Issue
Having grown to over $1 billion in revenue, Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. of Waltham, Massachusetts, is newest of the in vitro diagnostics (IVD) companies to achieve size and scale. One of its more interesting products is an in-home system that allows …
November 10, 2008 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 15 – November 10, 2008 Issue
In this country, medical tourism is generally understood to mean someone traveling to a foreign country to access less expensive healthcare. But a handful of U.S. hospitals are ready to make domestic medical tourism a paying proposition—and boost their occupancy rates at the same time. Earlier this…
October 20, 2008 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 14 – October 20, 2008 Issue
Once again, laboratory test unbundling is on the radar screen of federal regulators. Included in the 2009 work plan for the federal Office of Inspector General (OIG) is a review of laboratory test unbundling and a review of the extent of variation in laboratory test payment rates amo…
September 29, 2008 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 13 – September 29, 2008 Issue
It’s been a productive year for Michigan Co-Tenancy Laboratory (MCL) of Ann Arbor, Michigan, which performs reference and esoteric testing for its members. During 2008, four hospital systems have come aboard as new co-tenants. They are: Baptist Health, Montgomery, …
September 08, 2008 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 12 – September 8, 2008 Issue
Here’s an update on the issue of why pathologists working in independent laboratories will not be paid under the Medicare Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI). (See TDR, August 18, 2008.) Last week, Donald McLeod, a spokesman at the federal Centers for Medicare & Medic…
August 18, 2008 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 11 – August 18, 2008 Issue
There’s a new lab company in New York City. Manhattan Physicians Laboratory, Inc. (MPL) was recently launched by two former executives from Quest Diagnostics Incorporated. Thomas Golubic is MPL’s President and William Nouri is Vice President and Lab Operations Di…
July 28, 2008 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 10 – July 28, 2008 Issue
Last Monday, UroPath, Inc., an Arlington, Texas, company operating anatomic pathology laboratory condominium complexes in several states, disclosed its sale to HealthTronics, Inc., of Austin, Texas. Sales price was $7.75 million. UroPath’s former owners are urologi…
July 7, 2008 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 9 – July 7, 2008 Issue
GI Pathology, PLLC, of Memphis, Tennessee, announced that it has contracted to be a national gastrointestinal (GI) pathology laboratory provider with CIGNA HealthCare of Hartford, Connecticut. It also has a five year, national provider contract with UnitedHea…
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