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Preparing Your Lab for Post-Pandemic Success
MOST OF US WOULD CONSIDER IT GOOD NEWS that the number of Americans vaccinated continues to grow even as the daily number of new COVID-19 cases and deaths has fallen since its peak last winter. Data from USAFacts.com, a website developed by teams…
Millennials’ Healthcare Demands Will Be Radically Different from Others
This is an excerpt of a 1.620-word article in the May 3, 2021 issue of THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: In just 42 months, Millennials will make up 75% of the workforce, according to U.S. Department of Co…
Millennials Set to Reorder Healthcare & Lab Testing
CEO SUMMARY: In just 42 months, Millennials will make up 75% of the workforce, according to U.S. Department of Commerce statistics. As consumers and patients, they are already triggering changes, reforms, and innovation in healthcare. It is timely for clinical lab administrators and…
Federal Judges: Paying Commissions Violates AKS
CEO SUMMARY: Health Diagnostic Laboratory and its marketing partner, BlueWave Consultants, were back in the news recently after a three-judge panel of a federal appeals court denied a challenge from the former principals of those companies to an earlier court ruli…
Amazon Makes Big Play into Health, Diagnostics
CEO SUMMARY: Amazon is prepared to award $12 million in grants and is soliciting proposals for developing diagnostic technologies for detecting SARS-CoV-2 and other infectious diseases. This is the latest indication that the multi-billion-dollar enterprise would like to disrupt heal…
UnitedHealthCare’s New Policy Further Narrows Its Lab Network
UNITEDHEALTHCARE’S (UHC) RECENT MOVE to designate certain clinical and anatomic pathology laboratories as Designated Diagnostic Providers appears to be yet one more way that the insurer is narrowing its network. Effective July 1, 2021, and subject to st…
May 3, 2021 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Superman, the superhero of DC Comics and movies, recently gave a positive shout-out to lab professionals during the 45th Annual Lab Week. The American Society of Clinical Pathology (ASCP) gave its Lab Week recognition a theme of “Avengers of…
Lab Professions ‘Haves,’ ‘Have Nots,’ and Thieves
ONCE AGAIN, THE LATEST NEWS OF IMPORTANCE in the clinical laboratory industry includes disparate topics that include legal/regulatory, new technology in anatomic pathology, fraud involving lab testing, and more consolidation in the in vitro diagnostics (IVD) industry….
Federal Judge Rules Against ACLA in Its PAMA Lawsuit
CEO SUMMARY: Now that a federal judge has ruled that the American Clinical Laboratory Association’s lawsuit is moot and dismissed the case, it is unclear what next steps are open to ACLA and the clinical laboratory industry in their challenge to how the federal Centers for Medicar…
April 12, 2021 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
One clinical laboratory company now says it provides COVID-19 testing services to all five of the major men’s professional sports leagues in the United States. On April 1, BioReference Laboratories, Inc. (BRLI), a division of Opko Health, announced a new agreement with Major League…
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Volume XXVIII, No. 6 – May 3, 2021
As Millennials become set to dominate the workforce and national life, The Dark Report analyzes their preferences as consumers and how those preferences will change healthcare. Also in this issue is a report on how a federal court affirms that paying sales contractors commissions violates the Anti-Kickback Statute.
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