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Pre-authorization Coming For Pricey Molecular Tests
CEO SUMMARY: In response to the steep ramp-up in the utilization of genetic and molecular testing, the nation’s largest health insurers are preparing to institute new guidelines for coverage and reimbursement. These will include pre-authorization by physicians, a more effective genetic …
Assessing the Year-End Financials For Nation’s Biggest Lab Companies
IN RECENT WEEKS, the last of the nation’s largest public laboratory companies released year-end 2009 financial reports. Each lab firm’s financial report provides useful insights about active trends in the lab testing marketplace, particularly in lab testing referred by office-based physicians. …
Auckland Health Boards Give DML Some Testing
CEO SUMMARY: Auckland’s chaotic lab testing situation just became more complicated. Today the Auckland District Health Boards announced a four-year contract to allow Diagnostic Medlab to perform 10% of the area’s test volume, primarily for private hospitals and private specialists. It…
New Flu Strain Expected In Upcoming Flu Season
CEO SUMMARY: Public health labs continue to monitor for new cases of the A/Novel H1N1 flu, while preparing for what may be a difficult flu season this fall. Having coped with a 10-fold increase in testing volume, public health labs are assessing the lessons learned from the April…
Lab M&A Deals in June Show Market Direction
CEO SUMMARY: Despite a dismal economy, the month of June spawned two interesting merger/acquisition transactions in the lab testing industry. In one case, a blood brother gobbled up a specialty diagnostics company. In another transaction, two cross-town neighbors in Kansas City m…
CBL Path, Plus Diagnostics, Alpha Innotech, DNA Direct, Humana
NEW PATHOLOGY LABS OPEN ON EAST COAST TIMES MUST BE GOOD for anatomic pathology companies—at least two companies have each announced the opening of a new laboratory facility. On the East Coast, it was CBL Path, Inc., of Rye Brook, New York, which expanded. On May 29, it a…
New Report: POC Market Will Grow 30% by 2013
CEO SUMMARY: It will be no surprise to lab directors and pathologists that Kalorama Information, in its latest report on point-of-care (POC) testing, estimates that glucose testing comprises 67% of this market segment. What is notable is Kalorama’s prediction that worldwide POC…
Inverness Medical, ACON, LabInfotech, Kaiser Permenante
INVERNESS ACQUIRES TEST BUSINESS FROM ACON WITH A STRATEGY OF BECOMING DOMINANT in the consumer testing market and point-of- care (POC) testing sector, Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc., of Waltham, Massachusetts, has actively acquired companies a…
Diagnostic Errors Get Attention As Next Patient Safety Goal
PHYSICIAN LEADERS IN PATIENT SAFETY are turning up the heat on doctors to reduce the incidence of diagnostic errors. This is a topic few dared to openly discuss until recently. It is directly linked to Medicare and private payer efforts to crack down on medical errors. This development has profound …
Did CMS Err in Issuing New Anti-Markup Rules?
CEO SUMMARY: In the latest anti-markup rules that took effect on January 1, CMS may have unintentionally stated that the anti-markup rule doesn’t apply when a pathologist is reviewing histology slides. While the rule itself is unclear, the commentary that accompanies the rule s…
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