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Year’s Top 10 Lab Stories Contain Surprises & Twists
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, Number 18 – December 26, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: With the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic now in the rearview mirror of the nation’s clinical labs and pathology groups, the important news stories of 2023 were mostly about developments where the consequences will influence laboratory operations in coming years. Artificial intelligence…
Violating EKRA Earns Lab Owner an Eight-Year Prison Sentence
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, Number 18 – December 26, 2023 Issue
THIS MAY BE THE MOST HIGH-PROFILE CASE involving a clinical laboratory and the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act of 2018 (EKRA). Former Arrayit Corporation president Mark Schena was sentenced in October 2023 to eight years in federal prison and ordered to pay $24 million in resti…
Payers Are Right to Be Wary of Claims for Some LDTs’ Value
By Virchow | From the Volume XXX, Number 17 – December 4, 2023 Issue
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November 13, 2023, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, Number 16 – November 13, 2023 Issue
Federal regulators recently confirmed that Dec. 4 remains the deadline for public comment on the proposed rule that the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would use to regulate laboratory developed tests (LDTs). This was confirmed during a public webinar for the lab and in vi…
Q3 2023 Financial Reports Show Growth at Labcorp, Quest
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, Number 16 – November 13, 2023 Issue
Blood brothers Labcorp and Quest Diagnostics showed momentum beyond COVID-19 testing and toward areas that grew base business revenue in their third quarter (Q3) 2023 financial reporting. Company leaders called attention to more partnerships and acquisitions of ho…
Two Forces Push for More FDA Oversight of LDTs
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXX, No. 14 – October 2, 2023 Issue
CLINICAL AND GENETIC TESTING LABS MAY SUDDENLY FEEL THEMSELVES STUCK IN THE MIDDLE of a yin-yang situation when it comes to laboratory developed tests (LDTs). One force, the U.S. Food and Drug Administrati…
FDA Issues Proposed Rule to Further Regulate LDTs
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX, No. 14 – October 2, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Publication of the FDA’s draft rule on LDT regulation starts the clock on public comment. The proposal seeks to clearly identify laboratory developed tests (LDTs) as in vitro diagnos…
FDA’s Road to Regulation of Lab Developed Tests
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, No. 14 – October 2, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Today’s generation of clinical lab managers and pathologists should understand that the FDA’s efforts to publish a draft rule defining its authority to review laboratory developed tests (LD…
IVD Companies Launch New Assays, Analyzers, Automation
By Donna Marie Pocius | From the Volume XXX, No. 12 – August 21, 2023 Issue
Steep declines in SARS-CoV-2 test revenue were reported by the top in vitro diagnostics (IVD) companies in Q2 2023 earnings compared to a year earli…
FDA Expected to Publish Proposed LDT Rule in August
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX, No. 10 – July 10, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Congressional lawmakers and the federal Food and Drug Administration are again eyeing changes that would bring greater oversight to laboratory-developed tests (LDTs). Leaders at clinical laboratories and pathology groups should monitor these proposals, both of which c…
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Volume XXXI, No. 5 – April 8, 2024
The fragmentation of consumer markets is reflected in clinical lab services, and The Dark Report examines this trend and how it will impact labs in the coming years. Also, The Dark Report notes that the FDA has issued a controversial memo to reclassify many high-risk IVD assays.
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