Since 1995, Reliable Business Intelligence for Clinical Laboratories, Pathology Groups and Laboratory Diagnostics

Search

TAG:

genetic testing

Review of Genetic Testing Companies During 2024

CEO SUMMARY: Investors in genetic testing companies are taking it on the chin these days. During 2024, a number of the nation’s largest firms providing genetic test services reported significant losses. Other genetic testing companies are dealing with class action lawsuits claiming that…

Read More



November 25, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News

Disruption is happening in the consumer genetic testing marketplace. In recent weeks, news outlets in the United Kingdom reported that Atlas Biomed, a consumer genetic testing company founded in 2016, had simply “disappeared.” Malwarebytes said Atlas Biomed’s “London offices …

Read More



Managing Denials and Appeals of Clinical Lab, Path Claims

CEO SUMMARY: Based on a study of denials and appeals involving about 20 million lab test claims, the team at XiFin Inc. presents here their findings. They also provide recommendations on steps labs can take to reduce denials and win a greater proportion of appeals. IN RECENT…

Read More



Invitae’s Troubled Journey: Rise, Fall, and Bankruptcy

ON MAY 7, THE REMNANTS OF GENETIC TESTING GIANT INVITAE (NYSE: NVTA) were scooped up by …

Read More



UK’s Genomics PLC and MassMutual Offer Free Genetic Testing to Members

CONSUMER-DRIVEN HEALTHCARE PAIRED WITH A FOCUS ON PRE­VENTATIVE MEDICINE has given birth…

Read More



April 29, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News

It may be that the genetic data cat is out of the bag already. Nonetheless, lawmakers in Delaware are considering a bill that—among other things—would prevent life insurance companies from buying or using genetic testing data if it was obtained from ancestry companies and not from medical records…

Read More



February 26, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News

Following an investment of $1.75 million, officials at University of Maine at Augusta (UMA) opened a new lab facility this month that allows it to double the number of medical laboratory technicians it can train, from eight to 10 to as many as 20. In its coverage of the new training …

Read More



Year’s Top 10 Lab Stories Contain Surprises & Twists

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…

Read More



Gaining Network Access with Payers Is Often about Geography

EDITOR’S NOTE: Our column, Virchow, is written by anonymous insiders working within the managed…

Read More



How Private Payers Audit Labs for Possible Claims Fraud

EDITOR’S NOT…

Read More



;