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Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 Could Harm Independent Community Labs
In the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (PAMA), the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMA) is directed to collect market price data and use the data to establish prices for the Medicare Part B Clinical Laborato…
Florida Doctors Refuse to Use UHC’s Lab Ordering System
CEO SUMMARY: It may not yet be open rebellion, but UnitedHealthcare faces strong opposition in Florida from physicians- and their medical societies-over the requirement that they obtain pre-notification and pre-authorization when ordering tests listed in UHC’s laboratory benefit …
Market Price Report Rules Must Address All Issues
CEO SUMMARY: Under the Protecting Access to Medicare Act, CMS must collect market price and volume data from certain labs beginning January 1, 2016. CMS will use this data to establish Part B clinical laboratory fees beginning in 2017. One lab association representing community a…
February 17 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
GeneCentric is a new lab testing company in Durham, North Carolina that was started by former executives of Laboratory Corporation of America. It intends to raise $20 million in a Series B capital offering. GeneCentric’s business model is to license molecular diagnostic tests, then develop the…
January 26, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking News
Interesting things are happening in the commercial clinical lab testing market internationally. In New Zealand, district health boards continue a decadeslong trend of squeezing commercial lab companies with the goal of reducing laboratory testing costs and eliminating redundancies. Currently the dist…
January 5, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking News
In Vermont, a multi-year effort to create a statewide single-payer health insurance program has failed. On December 17, Governor Peter Shumlin announced that the state would not go forward with its plans to create a health program called Green Mountain Care. “The bottom line is that… it b…
Healthcare Cost Solutions Will Continue to Pinch Lab Industry Revenues in 2015
CEO SUMMARY: Will 2015 turn out to be a watershed year for the clinical laboratory industry? With healthcare cost solutions continuing to squeeze laboratory profits, two federal agencies are pushing forw…
Lab Industry to Confront Major Issues during 2015
CEO SUMMARY: Will 2015 turn out to be a watershed year for the clinical laboratory industry? Not only are two federal agencies pushing forward with initiatives that will touch nearly every medical lab in the United States in the next 12 months, but other equally powerful trends c…
Why ‘Bad Actors’ Continue to Operate in Lab Industry
OVER THE PAST TWO DECADES, pathologists and lab managers have regularly watched certain new lab companies burst on the scene and generate startling growth in revenue and profits by offering proprietary tests–often unsupported by published clinical studies that …
Why You Want the Insider’s Perspective of Lab News
TODAY I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE A QUOTE WITH YOU and offer some thoughts about how it relates to the profession of laboratory medicine that you practice every day. News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything …
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