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Cleveland Clinic and related lab sue True Health Diagnostics
THE DARK REPORT is the only lab industry news source to recognize the significance of the lawsuit between the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Cleveland HeartLab against a new lab company, True Health Diagnostics. It is the latest chapter in a string…
True Health Diagnostics Sued by Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland HeartLab
IT’S GETTING DOWN AND DIRTY in the cardiology testing sector of the lab industry. No less than the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, along with Cleveland HeartLab, have filed a patent infringement lawsuit against a start-up lab in Texas. The defendant is True H…
Winning Bidder for HDL Connected to BlueWave
CEO SUMMARY: Events within the bankruptcy proceedings of Health Diagnostic Laboratory could be interpreted as setting the stage for the emergence of a laboratory company operated by executives-and marketed by a sales consultant-known to have had leadership roles in other lab companies accus…
Hit by Many New Genetic Tests, Health Insurers Just Say ‘No’
OVERWHELMED WITH REQUESTS TO PAY for new genetic tests, health insurers, particularly smaller and regional insurers, find it easier to simply deny payment for such tests. This is one of the insights shared during a panel discussion involving several managed care executives at the 20th annual Exe…
OIG Says It Is Ready to Target Physicians in Kickback Cases
PHYSICIANS WHO PARTICIPATE IN schemes that violate anti-kickback and fraud statutes will be at greater risk of prosecution by federal healthcare officials. This development comes following the June 9 release by the OIG of “Fraud Alert: Physician Compensation Arrangements May Result in Significant Li…
Will Federal Prosecutors Pursue HDL Lab Execs and Physicians?
WHERE WAS MUCH TO BE LEARNED when, on April 9, federal prosecutors announced settlements of multiple whistleblower lawsuits against Health Diagnostics Laboratory, Inc. of Richmond, Virginia, and Singulex Inc. of Alameda, California. First, the Department of Justice structured a…
Did Labs Rip Off Medicare? Feds Are Investigating
CEO SUMMARY: One reason why there is not a level playing field in lab industry compliance with laws governing kickbacks and anti-business behavior is that government officials do not act quickly against the lab industry’s worst offenders—if they take any action at all. News of a feder…
In this Philadelphia Story, LabCorp Uses 2007 Script
CEO SUMMARY: There’s a managed care contracting play-book that seems to be working better for Laboratory Corporation of America than it does for Quest Diagnostics Inc. On July 1, LabCorp became the exclusive national lab provider for Independence Blue Cross of Philadelphia. For the past…
Federal Judge Lets Trial Proceed in Case against Quest
CEO SUMMARY: Four California labs have charged that Quest Diagnostics engaged in predatory pricing in a case filed originally in November 2012. After the lawsuit was amended last summer and fall, U.S. District Judge William H. Orrick III heard various motions in the case. On February 6 he…
Low 2013 Molecular Rates May Bankrupt Some Labs
CEO SUMMARY: Many of the recently issued reimbursement rates for molecular diagnostic tests are inadequate and in fact are lower than the cost of running the tests, lab experts say. Smaller laboratories that specialize in developing and selling molecular tests could be forced to close. As…
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