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Phlebotomist Convicted For Theft of Patient ID
CEO SUMMARY: Patient identity theft by a phlebotomist, prosecuted and convicted under HIPAA. This is a story whose true dimensions went unreported within the laboratory industry—until now! THE DARK REPORT is first to alert its clients to the possibility that every laboratory and patholo…
Privacy Officer Shares Lessons on ID Theft
CEO SUMMARY: “Nothing teaches like experience.” That adage aptly describes the lessons learned at a Seattle hospital after a case of patient identity theft surfaced. Laboratories and pathology groups must be just as alert to the potential for patient identity theft as they are to inap…
Phlebotomist Gibson Steals Patient’s Identity
CEO SUMMARY: It was a case of a well-liked lab worker acting in rogue fashion to steal and use the identity of a patient to commit financial fraud. Within laboratories, employees in phlebotomy, accessioning, data entry, coding, billing, and collections often have access to sensitive patie…
Medicare Managed Care Is Poised to Double in Size
MEDICARE MANAGED CARE PLANS are poised to double in size. This can be both a threat and an opportunity for regional laboratories. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently reported that it had received 141 applications for new local Medicare Advantage plans for 20…
OIG May Be Investigating AP Laboratory Condos
CEO SUMMARY: Attorneys for one of the companies which sells and manages anatomic pathology condominium laboratories have recently sent correspondence to owners of these lab condos. This correspondence discloses that the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is examining the company. Knowl…
Labs in United Kingdom Pressured to Change
CEO SUMMARY: Across the United Kingdom, the physical lay-out, instrumentation, and operation of laboratories is very close to that of laboratories in the United States and Canada. The source of most differences is how the healthcare system in the United Kingdom funds clinical services and…
Year-end Financials Released For Quest, LabCorp & LabOne
In RECENT WEEKS, public laboratory companies have released earnings reports for the year-ending December 31, 2004. It was generally a good year for the three largest lab companies that have a major emphasis on providing lab testing services to office-based physicians. In this year’s review, THE DA…
“March 28, 2005 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
For lab managers and pathologists tracking the growth of e-commerce, here’s a revealing statistic. The Federal Reserve Bank released numbers showing that 2003 was the first year where the number of electronic payment transactions exceeded the number of trans- actions paid by check….
“Lowest-Priced” Chickens Came Home to Roost
IN READING THE INTELLIGENCE BRIEFINGS on reference/esoteric laboratories in this issue, I found it interesting that American Medical Laboratories (AML) is no longer an independent lab company serving this market segment and that, of the four remaining independent lab companies focuse…
FL Medicaid Gives Up On Statewide Lab Contract
CEO SUMMARY: With the withdrawal of the December 13, 2004 “Invitation to Negotiate” (ITN), Florida’s Medicaid bureaucrats seem to have thrown in the towel—at least for the moment—on the effort to give a single laboratory company an exclusive three-year contract to provide labora…
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Volume XXXII, No. 13 – September 15, 2025
The Dark Report examines a new bill that would reform PAMA and avoid reimbursement rate cuts scheduled for January 2026. Clinical laboratory leaders are urged to make their voices heard in Congress. Also, an expert describes how labs can fix pre-analytical errors and avoid disaster.
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