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Proposed Federal Budget Threatens Laboratories
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume VII No. 3 – February 14, 2000 Issue
BY NOW MOST OF YOU KNOW THAT PRESIDENT CLINTON’S FY01 BUDGET is not kind to the clinical laboratory industry. It seeks to restore the 20% copayment for lab services, cuts 30% out of the reimbursement for four tests, and institutes the Medicare competitive bidding concept for lab services. Over the…
Lab Contracts Priced Below Cost May be Defined as Inducement
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VI No. 6 – April 26, 1999 Issue
PROBABLY THE MOST SERIOUS problem in the lab industry is one of its own making. “Below cost” contracting is a practice where clinical laboratories offer the managed care company a price which is less than its cost to provide the testing. With laboratory overcapacity still abundant in many cities…
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Volume XXXII, No. 6 – April 21, 2025
Now that a federal judge has vacated the FDA’s LDT rule, The Dark Report analyzes the judgement and notes the various steps the FDA could take in response. Also, lab testing at pharmacies is proving to be less successful than was once anticipated.
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