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Can Clinical Laboratories Adjust To ‘New’ Healthcare System?
CEO SUMMARY: Month by month, there is increased clarity in the path the American healthcare system will follow as hospitals, health systems, and physicians integrate clinical care, manage populations, and practice personalized and precision medicine. While these changes play out, clinical…
September 26, 2016 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
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…
Reference Pricing’s New Lab Winners and Losers
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…
What will the future hold for Theranos?
This is an excerpt from a 1,900-word article in the July 25 issue of THE DARK REPORT. The complete article is available to paid members of the Dark Intelligence Group. …
PAMA Final Rule a Threat To Community Lab Survival
CEO SUMMARY: Will implementation of the final PAMA private payment rate reporting rule for labs put smaller, community labs at financial risk? Yes, says the National Independent Laboratory Association (NILA). By deliberately setting a standard to exclude private payer payment data from ho…
New Threat To Community Lab Survival: CMS Clinical Lab Fee Schedule Cuts
This is an excerpt from a 2,000-word article in the July 5 issue of THE DARK REPORT. The original article is available to paid members of the Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: Everyone has read the basic facts, but THE DARK REPORT has gone further …
Walgreens Tells Theranos: ‘Lab Deal Is Terminated’
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…
Up to 30,000 Theranos test results voided; Walgreen dumps partnership
This is an excerpt from a 1,000-word article in the June 13 issue of THE DARK REPORT. The original article is available to paid members of the Dark Intelligence Group. …
At Executive War College 2016, Two Big Lab Market Trends
CEO SUMMARY: What happens when 100 lab experts interact with an audience of more than 850 lab administrators, pathologists, and IVD executives from across the United States and seven other nations? A consensus of sorts emerges and during this 2016 edition of the Executive War College on L…
200-Analyte Medication Test Panel Adds Value for Physicians
CEO SUMMARY: Delivering more value with lab tests requires going beyond simply working with physicians to improve test utilization by focusing on unnecessary or inappropriate tests. PeaceHealth Laboratories in Oregon successfully executed a two-step strategy to add value with its testing …
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