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Digital Pathology Can Be Transformative for Labs
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIV No. 9 – June 26, 2017 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Across the nation, pathologists are at a crossroads. Now that the FDA has cleared a digital pathology and whole slide imaging (WSI) system for use in primary diagnosis, should they adopt this technology sooner or wait until later? One pathologist who has worked with WSI for m…
Use of Creatinine to Improve Diagnosis, Treatment of AKI
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIV No. 8 – June 5, 2017 Issue
INNOVATIVE CLINICAL LABS are making significant changes to accommodate the shift from volume to values. In one change, they are collaborating with clinicians to use lab test data to improve patient outcomes. In another, they are collecting the clinical data from these efforts to publish the outcomes…
PAMA Data Projections Led to Decision to Sell Lab
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIV No. 3 – February 21, 2017 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Following passage of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014, officials at PeaceHealth and PeaceHealth Laboratories began to model the financial effect this law would have on this long-established hospital lab outreach program. Based on projections of a 20% cut in reven…
Lab Innovators Advocate Need for Clinical Lab 2.0
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIV No. 2 – January 30, 2017 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: It is generally recognized that the clinical lab industry faces a financial squeeze of unprecedented dimensions. Lab test prices are falling steadily and more major cuts are coming to Medicare Part B fees in just 11 months. At the same time, obtaining favorable coverage and r…
$26 Million Recoupment from Medicare Audit Hammers Pharmacogenomic Lab
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIV No. 1 – January 9, 2017 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: After Pharmacogenetics Diagnostic Laboratory LLC was audited by a Medicare Zone Program Integrity Contractor (ZPIC), it faced a $26 million repayment demand. The lab company appealed and asked for a redetermination, then filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. These devel…
PAMA Economics Drives Merger Of Two Seattle-Area Pathology Groups
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIV No. 1 – January 9, 2017 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Among the three chief reasons for the merger of CellNetix and Puget Sound Institute of Pathology, the most compelling was the need to address the challenges in the current reimbursement environment and to prepare for reductions in payment to pathologists expected in the comin…
Pharmacogenomic Testing Draws $26 Million Recoupment from Medicare Audit
By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXIV No. 1 – January 9, 2017 Issue
This is an excerpt from a 1,340-word article in the January 9 issue of THE DARK REPORT. The complete article is available for a limited time to all readers, and available at all times to paid members of the Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: Phar…
September 26, 2016 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIII No. 13 – September 26, 2016 Issue
Molecular and genetic testing laboratories that use the Microsoft Excel software program for some of their homegrown informatics may be at risk of lab testing errors due to an auto-correct quirk in the Exel software. Modern Healthcare reported on how researchers in Australia looked at 3,600…
Ohio State University Medical Center Inks Pact To Adopt Digital Pathology
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII No. 11 – August 15, 2016 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: For years, the adoption of digital pathology has lagged behind the predictions of its advocates. That has encouraged one digital pathology company—Inspirata, Inc., of Tampa—to come up with a different business strategy designed to help anatomic pathology labs address the …
UPMC-KingMed Digital Pathology Venture Improves Patient Care
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII No. 4 – March 21, 2016 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Many experts think that digital pathology will make it possible to create international pathology subspecialty referral networks. Now in its fifth year, a partnership between UPMC’s Pathology Department and KingMed Diagnostics of China uses telepathology to give Chinese pat…
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