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Walgreens to Close 60 VillageMD Locations
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 5 – April 8, 2024 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Following substantial losses in fiscal 2023, Walgreens is working to cut costs and reduce overhead. One casualty in this effort will be the closure of 60 of the 360 primary care clinics in retail pharmacy stores built by Walgreens in recent years. These actions demonstrate th…
CMS Issues AI Guidance for Medicare Advantage
By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXXI, No. 3 – February 26, 2024 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: With its guidance on how Medicare Advantage plans should use artificial intelligence (AI) when making treatment decisions involving individual patients, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has opened one door in the coming debate on how the federal governme…
Feds Target Genetic Test and Telemedicine Fraud
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXIX, No. 13 – September 19, 2022 Issue
MEDICARE FRAUD TOTALING $562 MILLION in genetic and cardiovascular tests is at the heart of recent federal criminal cases involving telemedicine that names clinical laboratory owners, physicians, and healthcare marketers as defendants. A host of indictm…
DOJ Charges Execs over Alleged Lab Kickbacks to Obtain Restitution
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 8 – June 6, 2022 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Multiple executives and sales representatives at True Health Diagnostics and Boston Heart Diagnostics have been named as defendants in a civil suit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice. The complaint centers on alleged kickbacks in return for clinical laboratory test…
How to Achieve Success with Genetic Test Prior Authorization
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 10 – July 26, 2021 Issue
AS MANAGED CARE PAYERS INCREASINGLY REQUIRE PRIOR AUTHORIZATION FOC GENETIC TESTS, clinical laboratories should understand the ins and outs of what it takes to get reimbursed for testing they provide. Almost all payers now require prior authorization (P…
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Volume XXXI, No. 5 – April 8, 2024
The fragmentation of consumer markets is reflected in clinical lab services, and The Dark Report examines this trend and how it will impact labs in the coming years. Also, The Dark Report notes that the FDA has issued a controversial memo to reclassify many high-risk IVD assays.
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