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New MoPath Lab Coalition Takes its Case to Congress
CEO SUMMARY: Prices recently established for molecular diagnostic tests are so low that they put patient access in jeopardy, declared a new lab industry coalition in a statement delivered to members of Congress. Called the Coalition to Strengthen the Future of Molecular Diagnosti…
Some Labs Report Faster Pay For Molecular, Genetic Tests via New CPT Code Reimbursement Program
DURING RECENT MONTHS, some labs are reporting improvement in how their claims for certain molecular and genetic tests are being reim…
Some Labs Report Faster Pay for Molecular, Genetic Tests
DURING RECENT MONTHS, some labs are reporting improvement in how their claims for certain molecular and genetic tests are being reimbursed. This is progress from the financial crises experienced during 2013 for many labs performing molecular and genetic tests….
New Lab Industry Trends Require Responses by Labs
CEO SUMMARY: One stark difference between the presentations delivered at last year’s Executive War College and this year’s presentations in New Orleans last week was near-unanimous recognition that the era of fee-for-service payment is soon to end! Speaker after speaker urged the…
Labs Have High Interest in Theranos and BeaconLBS
WHAT ARE PATHOLOGISTS AND LAB EXECUTIVES TALKING ABOUT when they gather at lab industry conferences? If the hallway chats between sessions and dinner conversations that occurred last week at the 20th annual Executive War College are representative, then the clinical lab profession is closely …
Are Labs Facing a Collapse in Test Prices?
IS IT REASONABLE, AT THIS TIME, TO ASK IF THE LAB INDUSTRY IS FACING a potential collapse in lab testing pricing? Were I to have asked that question several years ago, most of you would probably have responded with skepticism. But how the times have changed! Take the Protecting Access to Medicare Ac…
Theranos: Many Questions, but Very Few Answers
CEO SUMMARY: Winston Churchill famously said that “Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” That description could apply to Theranos, the company that claims it is poised to disrupt the entire clinical laboratory testing industry. In Phoenix, where Theranos is r…
April 20, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
It’s a lawsuit that Quest Diagnostics Incorporated can’t seem to make go away. Last week in California, a federal judge ruled Hunter Laboratories and Surgical Pathology Associates (SPA) can continue to pursue their antitrust lawsuit against Quest Diagnostics. …
Theranos: Many Questions, but Very Few Answers
WHEN A COMPANY THAT GOES PUBLIC WITH ITS GOALS, regularly and repeatedly declaring its lofty ambitions to do good for mankind by disrupting the status quo and replacing it with something new and wonderful, it invites itself to be judged by its actions and what it actually delivers. Since Thera…
Achieving CLIA, ISO 15189 at Same Time with A2LA
CEO SUMMARY: An interesting milestone for the clinical lab industry is on the horizon. Physicians Choice Laboratory Services in South Carolina will soon become one of the first lab organizations in the United States to earn joint CLIA and ISO 15189 accreditations with the America…
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Volume XXXII, No. 6 – April 21, 2025
Now that a federal judge has vacated the FDA’s LDT rule, The Dark Report analyzes the judgement and notes the various steps the FDA could take in response. Also, lab testing at pharmacies is proving to be less successful than was once anticipated.
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