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Hospice Fraud Crackdown Serves as Warning
CEO SUMMARY: Hospice providers were swept into a broad Medicare fraud enforcement effort, and some compliant centers got suspended from Medicare, according to The Washington Post. It’s…
Federal Shift on Medicaid Fraud Offers Warning to Labs
CEO SUMMARY: While the announcement of the largest autism fraud case in DOJ history doesn’t directly pertain to clinical labs, it still indicates heightened scrutiny of Medicaid-funded healthcare services n…
Federal Shift on Medicaid Fraud Offers Warning to Labs
CEO SUMMARY:While the announcement of the largest autism fraud case in DOJ history doesn’t directly pertain to clinical labs, it still indicates heightened scrutiny of Medicaid-funded healthcare services na…
June, 2026, Intelligence
AI Moves Deeper into Laboratory Workflows OpenAI has launched “ChatGPT for Clinicians,” a free AI platform for verified US physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and pharmacists. Designed to support documentation, medica…
Steep Sentence Underscores Scrutiny of Genetic Testing
The sentencing tied to a $522 million genetic testing fraud scheme is more than just the latest fraud headline for clinical laboratory professionals. Instead, it serves as another warning that federal scrutiny surrounding genetic testing is continuing and unlikel…
Elizabeth Holmes’ Partner Sought Campaign to Get Her Out of Jail
IN A BRIEF MENTION THAT WENT LARGELY UNNOTICED, a well-known marketing professor said he declined a request by Billy Evans—the partner of disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes—to help organize an effort to get Holmes out of prison. “[Evans] reached out t…
June 2, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Our sibling publication, G2 Intelligence, reported in May about a new Department of Justice (DOJ) memorandum that indicated prosecutors will seek to exercise fairness when deciding how to pursue fraud cases against clinical laboratories and other organizations. The DOJ emphasiz…
Federal Healthcare Fraud Enforcement Turns to Emerging Areas
CEO SUMMARY: Healthcare compliance attorneys say the Department of Justice (DOJ) is turning its focus to fraudulent activity related to COVID-19 testing. But that’s not the only area attracting greater scrutiny by the DOJ. Fraud stemming from opioid treatment has snared clinical l…
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Volume XXXIII, No. 11 – September 2026
In the September 2026 briefing, The Dark Report digs into a CMS proposal to cut payments for CPT code 88305, potentially based on flawed thinking. Other coverage includes the evolving role of mass spectrometry in clinical labs, payer obstacles to blood-based biomarker tests for Alzheimer’s disease, and how young pathologists can get business skill help.
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