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Middleware Produces Data In Real Time for Lab Managers
CEO SUMMARY: With sustained pressure on laboratories to cut costs, reduce errors, and raise quality, lab managers need faster access to detailed information about lab work processes. One solution is to use middleware to collect data in real time from the LIS and other sources, then analyz…
Walk-In Clinics in Retail Stores Is Hot New Healthcare Trend
HERE’S A NEW HEALTHCARE BUSINESS MODEL THAT IS POISED to transform primary care in the United States and is likely to upset any number of traditional clinical relationships in this country. The business model is the walk-in, 15-minute clinic located in a retail store. These types of clinics can al…
IVD Executive Discusses Three Developing Trends
CEO SUMMARY: In a refreshingly candid assessment of current technology published in IVD Technology magazine, one lab industry executive describes both the successes and the failings of analyzers, automation, and software. He offers three trends he expects will address the deficiencies of …
Three Ex-UroCor Execs Acquitted in Jury Trial
CEO SUMMARY: On June 30, 2006,three former executives of UroCor,Inc.,accused by the U.S. Attorney of anti-kickback and securities violations, stood and heard the jury verdict in their case. “Not guilty on all counts,” stated the jury foreman. Thus ended the effort to convict former ex…
Technical/Professional Billing Triggers Strong Opinions
IT’S A TREND WHICH IS GAINING THE NOTICE of growing numbers of pathologists. Physician groups are taking steps to directly engage pathologists to diagnose cases. The term “TC/PC” is often used to describe situations where two different providers provide the technical component…
Turning Up the Heat in California
FOR THE PAST TWO DECADES, CALIFORNIA HAS BEEN A PACE SETTER in healthcare and the clinical laboratory industry. Events in recent weeks seem to indicate that California will continue to move ahead of other regions in developments that influence the clinical laboratory industry. First, there is the im…
Lab MUEs Reconsidered, CMS Changes Course
CEOSUMMARY: It may bear are moment of common sense. Last month, Medicare officials stated their intent to exclude clinical laboratory and anatomic pathology CPT codes from the “Phase One” implementation of Medically Unbelievable Edits (MUEs). It is a positive step, and comes in respon…
More IVD Consolidation: DPC Sells to Siemens
CEO SUMMARY: It is a significant acquisition, and not just because Diagnostic Products Corporation has a major presence in immunodiagnostics. Siemens Medical Solutions is one of the dominant competitors in radiology. Its willingness to pony up almost $2 billion t…
Placenta Registry Stirs Unwarranted Controversy
CEO SUMMARY: On the surface, the “exposé” published by The Oregonian newspaper on February 12 seemed designed to sensationalize an effort by local obstetricians, hospitals, and pathologists to do a better job of evaluating placentas taken from patients who had experienced a difficult…
CMS Defers MUE Edits Until After Jan. 1, 2007
CEO SUMMARY: Medicare officials have granted a temporary respite on the troubling proposal to institute service restrictions per patient on some 80 pathology CPT codes and 1,100 clinical laboratory codes. These proposals are part of a new round of Medically Unbelievable Edits (MUEs). CMS …
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Volume XXXII, No. 6 – April 21, 2025
Now that a federal judge has vacated the FDA’s LDT rule, The Dark Report analyzes the judgement and notes the various steps the FDA could take in response. Also, lab testing at pharmacies is proving to be less successful than was once anticipated.
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