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Our Top Ten Lab Stories Highlight Major Changes

By Robert Michel, from the Volume XVII No. 17 - December 6, 2010 issue

CEO SUMMARY: What makes 2010 a watershed year for the laboratory testing industry is enactment of the 2,700-page Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Even if parts of this bill are repealed, the remaining parts of the massive legislation will trigger major changes to the healthcare system as it operates today. Other stories in

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Genetic Testing Genie Is Now Out of the Bottle

By Robert Michel, from the Volume XVII No. 9 - June 21, 2010 issue

CEO SUMMARY: There’s been an uneasy standoff between companies that want to sell genetic tests directly to consumers over the Internet and both state and federal regulators. But now it appears that the FDA is ready to take off the gloves and assert greater control over genetic testing. The agency moved swiftly to challenge six

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Volume XXVI No. 2 – February 4, 2019

NOW THAT MOST HOSPITALS ARE INCLUDED as applicable laboratories that must report their PAMA private payer lab test price data to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, managers of those labs will benefit from the incisive analysis in this issue of the lessons learned during the 2017 PAMA reporting cycle. THE DARK REPORT further offers recommendations on how labs can do a better job of gathering and reporting their own data to CMS. Also, TDR delivers an exclusive analysis of why the Government Accounting Office's assertion that CMS will be paying billions more for Part B clinical lab tests is simply wrong.

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