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laboratory compliance
Docs’ In-Office Testing Showing Mixed Trends
CEO SUMMARY: Despite the burdens of CLIA certification and reduced reimbursement for lab tests, many medical practice experts are advising doctors to expand in-office testing. However, diagnostic technologies for near-patient testing are still not robust enough to support this trend. Earl…
Patient Safety is Related to “Quality Management”
REMEMBER BACK IN 1997 WHEN LABORATORY COMPLIANCE PROGRAMS were mandated by Medicare officials? That was a big thing in the laboratory industry. Every laboratory organization in the United States scrambled to assess their laboratory’s operating practices, develop policies, and create a compliance ma…
Time to Change Bad Medicare Lab Policies
BYZANTINE MEDICARE REGULATIONS AND BELTWAY POLITICS are uncommon topics for THE DARK REPORT. There are any number of other sources out there that provide ample details about laboratory compliance, the complexities of billing and coding, and whether Senator Smootly will or won’t vote for reinstating…
Year’s Ten Biggest Stories Reveal Modest Changes
CEO SUMMARY: In many ways, 2000 was a relatively quiet year for laboratory organizations. This list of the ten biggest stories in the lab industry for 2000 demonstrates that the most innovative laboratory organizations in the United States are “raising the bar” for service and quality…
Is it Early-90s “Deja Vu” For Today’s Lab Industry?
CEO SUMMARY: Stock prices for laboratory and pathology companies have skyrocketed since the new decade of the 2000s dawned on January 1. Is investor optimism warranted by the opportunities ahead in diagnostic testing? Or will history repeat itself if the continuing evolution of American h…
“State of Lab Industry” Holds Surprises for All
CEO SUMMARY: Say goodbye to several of the trends which shaped the lab industry during the 1990s, such as consolidation and government compliance programs. Although these trends won’t completely disappear, they will be superseded by a number of new transformational influences. During th…
1999’s Top Ten Stories Reflect Speed of Change
CEO SUMMARY: This year’s round-up of the lab industry’s Top Ten most important stories lacks any compelling single theme. THE DARK REPORT’s conclusion? 1999 was a transition year. No new outside forces rattled the lab industry, allowing lab executives and pathologists to concentrate…
Healtheon Already Choice Of Public Lab Companies
CEO SUMMARY: Probably no single individual has greater insight about the changes now occurring to web-based laboratory test ordering and results reporting than Healtheon Corporation’s Nancy Ham. As Vice President of Connectivity & Institutional Services, Nancy is responsible for Hea…
FDA Wants Abbott Labs To Toe Regulatory Line
CEO SUMMARY: In the short term, it’s Abbott Laboratories which must deal with increasingly aggressive FDA regulators. But the real story behind the story is that the FDA is stepping up regulatory oversight of the entire diagnostics industry. Abbott faces serious consequences if it canno…
Pathologist Income Symposium, Healtheon, Biogenetics, Healthworks Alliance
PATHOLOGIST INCOME SYMPOSIUM DATES ARE NOVEMBER 12-13, 1999 SCOTTSDALE IS AGAIN SLATED TO HOST the upcoming private Pathologist Income Symposium, scheduled for November 12-13, 1999. This year’s symposium tackles the toughest of all topics: increasing the compensation paid by hosp…
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Volume XXXI, No. 6 – April 29, 2024
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