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August 24, 2020 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News

Currently at least 15Ā veterinary laboratoriesĀ in the United States performĀ COVID-19 tests. ThisĀ fact was confirmed by Adm.Ā Brett Giroir, MD, the AssistantĀ Secretary of the DepartmentĀ of Health and HumanĀ Services (HHS), during anĀ interview last month conductedĀ by CNN. Officials atĀ HHS confi…

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Amazon Targets COVID-19 Testing in its New Lab-Building Venture

This is an excerpt of a 1,980-word article in the August 3, 2020 issue of THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: For pathologists and clinical lab directors,Ā Amazonā€™s nascent COVID-19 t…

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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…

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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…

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Amazon Building Labs to Do COVID-19 Testing

CEO SUMMARY: For pathologists and clinical lab directors,Ā Amazonā€™s 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…

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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, entrepreneursā€”manyĀ with no prior experience in laboratory medicineā€”want to makeĀ money providing COVID-19 testing. Many of th…

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Itā€™s 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 …

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Why Local Labs Deserve More COVID-19 Supplies

CEO SUMMARY: As government officials and IVD firms divertĀ the lionā€™s 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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Health Insurers Push Back On COVID-19 Test Claims

CEO SUMMARY: Under new federal laws, health insurersĀ are required to pay for testing for the novel coronavirus withoutĀ cost-sharing, prior authorization, or medical managementĀ limits, but insurers are questioning these COVID-19 lab testĀ bills and denying many of the claims, a healthca…

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June 22, 2020 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News

As they scrambleĀ to respond to theĀ COVID-19 pandemic,Ā federal officials in multipleĀ agencies are purchasingĀ equipment and supplies fromĀ vendors with dubious credentialsĀ and little operatingĀ history. In recent days, Pro-Publica reported ā€œa fledglingĀ Texas company was paid $7.3Ā mil…

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