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UnitedHealthcare Warns Labs: Don’t Waive Patient Fees
This article is an excerpt from a 1,500-word article in the March 21 issue of THE DARK REPORT. Full details of UHC’s battle against out-of-network labs, as well as its plans to begin requiring pre-authorization for genetic testing, are included in the original article, available to paid members…
At FDA, Laboratory-Developed Tests Are in the Crosshairs
This article is an excerpt from a 600-word article in the March 21 issue of THE DARK REPORT. Full details of FDA’s laboratory-developed test guidance and recent actions against labs that are marketing LDTs are included in the original article, available to paid m…
Lab CEO Sees Three Trends Cutting Volume, Revenue
CEO SUMMARY: Following the sale of his hospital lab outreach business to a national lab company, former CEO James Fantus told THE DARK REPORT about the significant trends he saw unfolding in the Northeast. They include: a shrinking number of physician customers for labs; a rising number o…
March 21, 2016 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
Tougher times in the clinical lab testing market have claimed another lab company. On February 28, Artherotech, Inc., posted a notice on its website stating that it had closed permanently, as of that date. Along with its several hundred employees, Artherotech’s closure caught many…
FDA Steps Up Test Enforcement, Saying Tests Need Clearance
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UnitedHealthcare Warns Labs Not to Waive Patient Fees
CEO SUMMARY: UnitedHealthcare directly tackled the issue of out-of-network labs waiving or capping copayments, coinsurance and deductibles that are to be paid by patients. In a network bulletin this month, UHC said that such arrangements may violate federal law and could lead to state ins…
Grodman Resigns from BRLI, New President Is Henderson
THERE IS A NEW LEADER at Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc., now owned by OPKO Health, Inc., of Miami, Florida. Last week, Gregory Henderson, MD, PhD, was named as President of BRLI. Henderson takes over from Marc Grodman, MD, who resigned after serving as Chairman, P…
A Pantheon of Greatest Lab Physician-Businessmen
WHEN IT COMES TO THE CLINICAL LABORATORY BUSINESS, generally included in the lab industry’s Pantheon of Greatest Physician (Pathologist) Businessmen are Paul A. Brown, MD, and James B. Powell, MD. I’d like to nominate another physician to this list: Marc D. Grodman, MD. During the 1970s and 1980…
Palmetto GBA Issues Guidance On Billing NGS Test Panels
CEO SUMMARY: Across the lab industry, next generation sequencing is taking hold as an effective and efficient testing platform. In response, payers are developing coding and payment policies that may affect the finances of clinical labs. Last month, Palmetto GBA, a Medicare contractor, is…
February 29, 2016 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
Sandy, Utah-based Sure Genomics is the latest genetic testing company to get a letter from the Food and Drug Administration asking why the company is marketing its SureDNA genetic testing kit to consumers without first obtaining clearance from the federal agency. Th…
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