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July 25, 2016 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
Throughout the profession of laboratory medicine, concern is surfacing following publication of a proposed rule by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) that would expand the authority of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) to supervise and perform laboratory testing. This …
ADLT Final Rule Creates Tough Questions for Labs
IT’S GOING TO BE A DIFFERENT AND TOUGHER WORLD for laboratory companies that market proprietary molecular and genetic tests. That’s the opinion of experts who have studied the final rule governing Advanced Diagnostic Laboratory Tests (ADLTs) that the federal Centers for Medicare & Med…
California Lab Company Offers Genetic Tests with Low Prices
ONE BY ONE, A HANDFUL OF PROGRESSIVE LAB COMPANIES is finding financial success with a strategy of pricing genetic tests at levels that are affordable and attractive to the general public. These labs report an added benefit: They find it easier to get health insurers to pay their genetic test claims….
McKesson, Change Healthcare Decide to Create New Company
ACROSS THE NATION, the hundreds of pathology groups and clinical labs that use McKesson Technology Solutions for their billing and collections, along with labs that use the Advanced Diagnostics Solutions group, should pay attention to a major corporate deal announced…
Years of Biobank Experience Pay Off for Mayo Clinic Lab
THANKS TO 10 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE, an existing infrastructure for banking patient specimens, and the unique capabilities of its clinical laboratory organization, Mayo Clinic has been awarded a five-year, $142 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. Last…
Genetic Testing Lab Finds Payers Respond To Education on Test Utility
CEO SUMMARY: In recent years, insurers have raised the bar and become much tougher when making coverage and reimbursement decisions for molecular assays, genomic, and genetic tests. Yet several lab testing companies are having good success at demonstrating the validity and clinical utilit…
Payers Asking for Repayment When Labs Waive Fees
CEO SUMMARY: Health insurers appear to have stepped up their efforts to warn clinical laboratories not to waive patients’ fees in return for specimen referrals. Consultants also say that payers are increasing enforcement efforts. There are cases where, when insurers discover labs have n…
At Executive War College 2016, Two Big Lab Market Trends
CEO SUMMARY: What happens when 100 lab experts interact with an audience of more than 850 lab administrators, pathologists, and IVD executives from across the United States and seven other nations? A consensus of sorts emerges and during this 2016 edition of the Executive War College on L…
Gene Testing Lab Goes ‘Cold Turkey,’ Stops Billing Health Plans
CEO SUMMARY: Last year, Kailos Genetics stopped collecting third-party payment, dropped its prices sharply, and started marketing its genetic-screening tests directly to consumers and physicians. At the time, 100% of its revenue came from third-party payers. Today, it gets 100% of its rev…
May 2, 2016 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
Like the Sword of Damocles of Greek myth, market price reporting by labs under the Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA) continues to hang over the heads of the nation’s clinical laboratories. However, instead of a threat, PAMA market price reporting may soon become a reality. News reports indi…
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