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MT/MLT Distance Learning Goal of Collaboration
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 11 – August 18, 2008 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: To encourage more students to pursue medical technology (MT) and medical laboratory technician (MLT) degrees, ARUP Laboratories and Weber State University (WSU) are collaborating to promote the distance learning programs offered at WSU. Online students can work any shift and …
Successful Laboratories in the Future Will Brand Themselves, Add Value
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 11 – August 18, 2008 Issue
“There is an opportunity for the laboratories to become more proactive with health plans. Pathologists are reading the literature and know specifically which diagnostics tests should be performed before expensive imaging procedures are ordered.” —Kerry Kaplan, Presid…
Canadian Pathologists Start PT Testing for ER/PR
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 11 – August 18, 2008 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Experts point out that widely publicized episodes of lab testing deficiencies in several provinces are signs that chronic underfunding of lab testing services is a key factor in these failures. To restore public confidence in breast cancer testing, the Canadian Association of…
August 18, 2008 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 11 – August 18, 2008 Issue
There’s a new lab company in New York City. Manhattan Physicians Laboratory, Inc. (MPL) was recently launched by two former executives from Quest Diagnostics Incorporated. Thomas Golubic is MPL’s President and William Nouri is Vice President and Lab Operations Di…
Lab Testing Hits Two Home Runs For Patients
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XV No. 10 – July 28, 2008 Issue
MANY OF US POINT OUT THAT LABORATORY MEDICINE is an undervalued and under-utilized asset within the American healthcare system. Lab testing is generally a minimal cost relative to the total episode of care, yet lab testing provides essential knowledge to help clinicians make a quick, accurate diagnos…
Vitamin D Test Volumes Doubled in Past Year
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 10 – July 28, 2008 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Across the nation, labs report a near doubling in the volume of vitamin D tests they are performing. This is a success for laboratory medicine and an appropriate use of diagnostics tests as physicians strive for early detection and early intervention of vitamin D deficiency. …
Labs Should Build Payer Relationships to Improve Commodity Pricing
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 10 – July 28, 2008 Issue
“Health plans are interested in improving outcomes and saving money on complex, expensive cases because that’s where the money is. At the same time, that’s an opportunity for labs to help health plans cut costs while also improving quality. ” —Kerry Kaplan, Presi…
CMS Anti-Markup Rules Target In-Office Ancillaries
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 10 – July 28, 2008 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Medicare officials are again attempting to rein in what they consider to be potentially abusive forms of in-office ancillary services, including anatomic pathology. Proposed new rules published this month would clarify and perhaps expand the application of the Medicare anti-m…
July 28, 2008 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 10 – July 28, 2008 Issue
Last Monday, UroPath, Inc., an Arlington, Texas, company operating anatomic pathology laboratory condominium complexes in several states, disclosed its sale to HealthTronics, Inc., of Austin, Texas. Sales price was $7.75 million. UroPath’s former owners are urologi…
NY & Calif. Act to Stop Web Gene Testing Firms
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 9 – July 7, 2008 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Events in the past month indicate that a war is developing between Internet-based companies offering genetic tests to consumers and state and federal health regulators. New York state authorities have sent letters to at least 31 such companies in recent month…
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