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UHC Ready to Implement New Lab Test Registry
CEO SUMMARY: UnitedHealthcare announced that its newĀ Test-Registry Protocol will become effective on Jan. 1, 2021,Ā creating a major billing hurdle for labs and pathology groups. ByĀ that date, a lab must register each type of test before it can submitĀ claims for these tests to the nati…
UHC Issues Details about How Labs Register Tests
CEO SUMMARY: As of January 1, UnitedHealthcare willĀ require all clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology groupsĀ to register every type of test before labs can bill for those tests.Ā Not only is the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting normal activity,Ā but the administrative burden UHC is i…
Amazon Building Labs to Do COVID-19 Testing
CEO SUMMARY: For pathologists and clinical lab directors,Ā Amazonās nascent lab-testing venture for employees could be aĀ significant concern given that the e-commerce company couldĀ disrupt the clinical lab business nationwide. The online retailĀ giant has long had an interest in medic…
Employers, Others Looking to Build New Clinical Labs
CEO SUMMARY: Employers, universities, municipalities,Ā and other large organizations are interested in building theirĀ own clinical laboratories. In addition, entrepreneursāmanyĀ with no prior experience in laboratory medicineāwant to makeĀ money providing COVID-19 testing. Many of th…
IVD Firms Report Boom in Sales of COVID-19 Instruments, Tests
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic,Ā second quarter earningsĀ reports were a good news/bad newsĀ situation for most of the nationās major inĀ vitro diagnostic (IVD) companies. The good news was that demand forĀ COVID-19 tests meant increased salesĀ and revenues for IVD firms selling those…
Is COVID-19 Pooled Testing Good for Labs, Bad for IVDs?
This is an excerpt of a 1,420-word article in the July 13, 2020 issue of THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: Pooled testing for COVID-19 could be aĀ double-edged sword for clinical labs and in vitro diagnos…
Itās a Clinical Lab Moment … But No Advocates!
Nearly every day since the onset of the SARS-C0V-2 outbreak,Ā there have been stories in the national news about clinical laboratory testingĀ for COVID-19. No laboratory professional alive today has seen such anĀ endless stream of news stories about clinical lab testing. This is a once-in-a-lifetime …
COVID-19 Pooled Testing: Good for Labs? Not IVDs?
CEO SUMMARY: Pooled testing for COVID-19 could be aĀ double-edged sword for clinical labs and in vitro diagnosticsĀ companies. Offering the advantage of reducing the number ofĀ standard tests for SARS-CoV-2, this testing method would cutĀ lab spending on tests and testing supplie…
Officials Differ on Value of COVID-19 Pooled Testing
CEO SUMMARY: Some experts on testing strategies supportĀ pooled testing because this method may support reopening byĀ schools and businesses and thus bring the economy back. ButĀ other experts have raised questions about this strategy. RulesĀ from the federal Centers for Medicare …
Why Local Labs Deserve More COVID-19 Supplies
CEO SUMMARY: As government officials and IVD firms divertĀ the lionās share of COVID-19 tests to a handful of billion-dollarĀ labs, in thousands of hospitals across the nation COVID-19Ā patients languish days longer before discharge because their hospitalĀ lab must send COVID-19 tests t…
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