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Labs Have Heavy Burden to Report Lab Price Data
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII No. 15 – November 7, 2016 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Clinical labs must assess their responsibilities to report lab test market prices to CMS as part of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act. A panel of three experts took up this topic at a recent webinar hosted by THE DARK REPORT. On June 23, the federal Centers for Medicaid &…
Market Price Data Sample from: Molecular/Genetic Labs
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIII No. 15 – November 7, 2016 Issue
Here is the market price data for molecular and genetic labs from XIFIN Inc. Lâle White, Founder and CEO of XIFIN, discusses the data with THE DARK REPORT. EDITOR: When you did this analysis of molecular and genetic…
How Reference Pricing Encourages Patients to Help Cut Cost of Care
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII No. 14 – October 17, 2016 Issue
USE OF REFERENCE PRICING by Safeway to lower the cost of clinical laboratory tests was the subject of a study published by JAMA Internal Medicine in July. In a special issue, THE DARK REPORT analyzed the study, which showed that reference-based pricing …
First CAP 15189 Accreditation for a Children’s Hospital Lab
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII No. 13 – September 26, 2016 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: It’s now official. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is the first children’s hospital to earn accreditation to ISO 15189 under the College of American Pathologists. What is more interesting, however, is how lab leadership used the quality management system of ISO 15…
Health Diagnostics Laboratory lawsuit seeks $600M; will it establish a new precedent?
By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXIII No. 13 – September 26, 2016 Issue
This is an excerpt from a 1,350-word article in the September 26 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: It’…
Reference Pricing’s New Lab Winners and Losers
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIII No. 12 – September 6, 2016 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Expanded use of reference pricing by employers in coming years could trigger a cycle of cuts to lab test prices that would put the most pressure on the lab companies with the highest prices. Many hospital labs are viewed as having high prices. But because they run outreach sp…
Walgreens Tells Theranos: ‘Lab Deal Is Terminated’
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIII No. 8 – June 13, 2016 Issue
BREAKING NEWS: As this issue of THE DARK REPORT went to press, it was learned that Walgreens had announced the termination of its lab testing agreement with Theranos, effective immediately. Theranos loses access to about 40 Walgreens pharmacies in Phoe…
June 13, 2016 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIII No. 8 – June 13, 2016 Issue
Life insurers are adopting healthcare big data as part of their underwriting process and clinical laboratory test data has an important role. Quest Diagnostics Incorporated participates in this business line. Huffington Post recently published a story on this topic and ident…
CMS Update Plans for Medicare Clinical Lab Fee Schedule Could Be in Trouble
By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXIII No. 5 – April 11, 2016 Issue
This is an excerpt from a 1,400-word article in the April 11 issue of THE DARK REPORT. Full details of the California program are included in the original article, available to paid members. CEO SUMMARY: Evidence from California shows that national la…
Giving Back to the Clinical Lab Profession
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXIII No. 5 – April 11, 2016 Issue
MANY OF US ARE CONCERNED about how the next generation of clinical lab and anatomic pathology leaders will be trained and prepared to step up and assume responsibility for the clinical excellence and financial performance of their respective lab organizations. To contribute to the training of prom…
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