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Florida Docs Seek to Cut Ties with UnitedHealthcare
CEO SUMMARY: Physicians in Florida continue to express significant concerns about UnitedHealthcare’s pilot program requiring pre-notification for 80 clinical laboratory tests, including many routine tests, and pre-authorization for two genetic tests. The program i…
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 …
Is PAML to Be Sold? ‘No Comment!’ Say Execs
CEO SUMMARY: It is one of the 10 largest lab companies in the United States. Thus, if Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories in Spokane, Washington, were to be sold, it would trigger a major shift in the competitive market for lab testing service…
PAMA, LDTs and Theranos Top 2014 Biggest News
CEO SUMMARY: Not in recent memory has a single calendar year brought such a cascade of news stories that have the potential to affect nearly every clinical lab and pathology group in the United States. Blame it on the lack of money to fund healthcare and how it is motivating government an…
Top 10 2014 Biggest News Stories
Story no.1 SGR Fix by Congress Spawns PAMA;Â Lab Industry Wary of Law’s Impact ON APRIL 1, PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA signed into law the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (PAMA). As written, it has the potential to be the most impactful federal legislation on the clinical lab industry s…
The Curious Case of Dr. Cockerill, Mayo Clinic and Quest Diagnostics
MOST PEOPLE WOULD CONSIDER the job of Chairman of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology (DLMP) at Mayo Clinic and CEO of Mayo Medical Laboratories (MML) to be at the pinnacle of the pathology profession. This makes it all the more curious as to why pat…
December 15, 2014 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
In certain respects, the noted physician and healthcare strategist Eric Topol, M.D., of Scripps Healthcare in La Jolla, California, can be considered a gadfly to pathology and the laboratory medicine profession. In his latest pronouncements on patient-centered healthcare, he warned c…
California Hospitals Become Health Insurers
WHAT CHANGES WHEN THE NATION’S HOSPITALS become health insurers? How do pathology practices and clinical laboratories contract to provide lab testing services when their parent hospital is also the insurer? We are about to learn the answers to these questions by watching California. News outlets a…
Labs Share Successes in Delivering More Value
CEO SUMMARY: As the number of accountable care organizations and patient-centered medical homes grows monthly, a handful of innovative labs are seizing the opportunity to develop and deliver lab testing services that add more value to physicians and patients. These early-adopter labs reco…
November 24, 2014 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
Interesting things are unfolding in San Diego with Pathway Genomics, a company with a CLIA lab that offers genetic testing to physicians. On November 12, it was announced that the IBM Watson Group had invested in Pathway Genomics. The two companies said that they are…
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