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Predicting the End of Fee-for-Service Medicine
HOW DISRUPTIVE WILL THE END OF FEE-FOR-SERVICE MEDICINE be to the lab testing industry? I ask this question because we are about to leave the era of fee-for-service (FFS) medicine and move into the era of value-based and bundled reimbursement. Since World War II, FFS has been the overwhelmingly domi…
ACO Numbers Increase, Now Cover 10% of Nation
CEO SUMMARY: A recent report by a consulting firm that tracks the ACO industry indicates that, as of the end of 2012, ACOs of all types involved—in some manner—between 25 and 31 million patients. Moreover, Medicare and private ACOs are located in regions where 45% of the population of…
Process Improvement Coming to Healthcare
CEO SUMMARY: One new byword coming to healthcare in the United States is the “continuously-learning healthcare system.” At the upcoming Lab Quality Confab in San Antonio next month, lab managers and pathologists can learn more about how to achieve and sustain continuous improvement in…
CMS Proposes Sanctions Against OSU Laboratory
CEO SUMMARY: As its reward for self-reporting the referral of six proficiency testing (PT) specimens in three years, the laboratory at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (OSUWMC) has been told by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that its CLIA license could b…
Hospital and Health System Labs Brace for Change
BY THE TIME MOST OF YOU ARE READING THIS, it is likely that the Supreme Court ruling on the challenge to the Accountable Care Act (ACA) will be public knowledge. It was this week of June 25-June 29 that the ruling was expected to be announced. Obviously, there are three potential rulings: 1) to all…
MD Self-Referral Issues Target of Utilization Study
CEO SUMMARY: When it comes to the in-office ancillary service (IOAS) exception to physician self-referral, the issue of in-clinic pathology services has become a hot potato. Publication in Health Affairs of a study of urologists’ self-referral of their patients for anatomic pathology se…
Hospital’s Closing Is a Lab Industry Opportunity
NEWS OF THE ORDER by the New York State Department of Health (DOH) to close Peninsula Hospital Center in Rockaway for at least 30 days because of deficiencies in the hospital laboratory is slowly filtering throughout the clinical laboratory industry. (…
9 Pennsylvania Hospitals Tackle Lab Specimen Errors
CEO SUMMARY: In this unusual collaboration, the participating Pennsylvania hospitals dramatically reduced blood specimen labeling errors. This initiative to share best practices incorporated techniques that were refined in other projects designed to reduce medical errors and improve patie…
LabCorp’s BeaconLBS Aims To Manage Genetic Tests
CEO SUMMARY: BeaconLBS is a new business created by Laboratory Corporation of America. It says it wants to help health insurance plans manage molecular diagnostics and genetic testing. BeaconLBS is now recruiting other clinical labs to join its network and is meeting with payers to offer …
Lab Testing, Pathology Is Fast-Growing in China
CEO SUMMARY: It was record attendance at the major pathology congress which took place in Hangzhou, China, last month. Because of the ongoing growth of China’s economy, the demand for healthcare—and for high-quality clinical lab and pathology testing—is rising at an accelerated pace…
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Volume XXXII, No. 6 – April 21, 2025
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