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Sonora Quest PSCs in Safeway Stores Prove Popular with Consumers
CEO SUMMARY: In a pilot program started in November 2015, Sonora Quest Laboratories built patient service centers in two Safeway grocery stores. That program went so well that patients filled available appointments in a matter of weeks. Sonora Quest even reported an increase in the number…
FDA Official Outlines Need for Federal Regulation of LDTs
AT A CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING LAST WEEK, a federal official charged with regulating laboratory-developed tests made the case that LDTs are inconsistently reliable and thus put patients at risk, according to MedPage Today. “If you take the same patient sample and you send it to different la…
UnitedHealthcare to Bring BeaconLBS to Texas
CEO SUMMARY: With a quiet announcement this month that it was bringing its laboratory benefit management program to Texas on March 1, 2017, UnitedHealthcare is taking on a big challenge. Enrollment in UHC’s commercial plans in Texas is 4.3 million. That is twice the two million commerci…
Market Disruption Coming to Labs in Texas
IT WON’T BE WELCOME NEWS TO CLINICAL LABS AND PATHOLOGY GROUPS IN TEXAS that UnitedHealthcare will introduce its laboratory benefit management program in the Lone Star State. It will change the access many labs have to UHC patients and probably reduce the money these labs are paid if and when they …
HDL Founders, BlueWave, Shareholders Sued for $600 Million by Bankruptcy Trustee
CEO SUMMARY: Unlike federal prosecutors, who to date have shown little interest in seeking to recover money from either the physicians who accepted inducements from Health Diagnostic Laboratory or many of the shareholders, executives, and sales consultants of HDL, the trustee of the HDL b…
Attorney Jane Pine Wood to Be Chief Legal Counsel at Bio-Reference
One of the most widely-respected and trusted attorneys serving the clinical laboratory industry and anatomic pathology profession is leaving private practice to join the corporate world. …
Ob-Gyn Associations Dispute Need For Genetic Test Counseling Requirements
CEO SUMMARY: Obstetricians and gynecologists have told health insurers that requiring genetic counseling before approval of genetic testing has a negative effect on patient care and is unnecessary. Recently, two ob-gyn associations went on record opposing such requirements. Ob-gyns say th…
September 26, 2016 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
Molecular and genetic testing laboratories that use the Microsoft Excel software program for some of their homegrown informatics may be at risk of lab testing errors due to an auto-correct quirk in the Exel software. Modern Healthcare reported on how researchers in Australia looked at 3,600…
Cepheid, Sequenom Acquisitions Further Consolidate Lab Testing
TWO ACQUISITIONS FURTHER consolidated the clinical laboratory testing industry in recent weeks. The acquired companies were Sequenom and Cepheid. Sequenom went first. On July 27, Laboratory Corporation of America announced an agreement to acquire …
Why Lab Prices Declined 32% During 3-Year Study
CEO SUMMARY: Researchers studied the effect reference pricing had on an employer’s efforts to steer consumers to low-cost clinical labs. The study showed that patients were particularly sensitive to lab test prices—in part because those prices varied widely. Over the course of the …
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