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PAML Joint Venture News from The Dark Report Intelligence
November 2, 2007 PAML and HCA Agree to Start New Lab Joint Venture in Utah …
New BlueCard Policies Affect Laboratory Test Claims
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XIX No. 10 – July 16, 2012 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: This new policy from the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) becomes effective on October 14, 2012. No longer can a local lab provide service to a member under the BlueCard program a…
State of Clinical Lab Industry Likely to Be Mixed in 2016
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXII, Number 17 – December 7, 2015 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Over the next 24 months, it will be essential for every clinical laboratory and anatomic pathology group to develop clinical and financial strategies that meet the changing needs of health insurers, hospitals and health systems, physicians, and patients. THE DARK REPORT provi…
November 16, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXII, Number 16 – November 16, 2015 Issue
Roper Industries, the owner of Sunquest Information Systems, Inc., acquired two more lab informatics companies. On October 26, it announced a definitive agreement to purchase A…
New Company Targets Lab Benefit Management
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXII, Number 16 – November 16, 2015 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Soon, the nation’s newest laboratory benefit management company will begin working for Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina. Avalon Healthcare Solutions committed to BCBSSC that it can save money off what the health plan has been spending on clinical lab testing. It wil…
Toxicology Lab Millennium Pays $256M to DOJ, Files For Bankruptcy
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXII, Number 16 – November 16, 2015 Issue
IN ANOTHER MAJOR LAB FRAUD CASE, toxicology lab company Millennium Health will pay $256 million to settle allegations in a whistleblower lawsuit that it overbilled federal healthcare programs for unnecessary lab testing. Just 22 days after this agreement, Millennium Health filed a pe…
Lab Professionals Long Knew of Challenges at Theranos
By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXII No. 15 – October 26, 2015 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: As THE DARK REPORT has continually reported, pathologists and medical laboratory professionals in the San Francisco and Phoenix markets were aware for most of the past year that Theranos was not delivering to patients and consumers the specific lab testing services it regula…
October 26, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXII No. 15 – October 26, 2015 Issue
Describing “nutritional chemistry and food safety as an exciting growth opportunity,” CEO David King of Laboratory Corporation of America announced his company’s recent acquisition of International Food Network and The National Food Laboratory. Terms of the deal were not announced. Some analys…
New ADLT Payment Rate May Force Lab to Close
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXII No. 15 – October 26, 2015 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Four Medicare Administrative Contractors currently pay $2,821 for CareDx’s AlloMap test. But under the proposal that CMS issued last month to overhaul the clinical lab fee schedule, CareDx would get only $644. Such a steep price cut would put the lab out of business because…
Labs React with Criticism to Proposed ADLT Rule
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXII No. 15 – October 26, 2015 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Some in the lab industry had high hopes that passage of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA) last year would favorably resolve a number of important issues. However, those hopes were dashed following the September 25 release by CMS of a proposed rule setting out how i…
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