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Direct Access Test Laboratories Targeted by NY State Attorney General
CEO SUMMARY: Following an investigation of two lab companies providing direct access testing in New York State, the New York Attorney General entered into agreements with each lab company. Direct Laboratories, LLC, of Mandeville, Louisiana, agreed to cease offering DAT services in New Yor…
December 28, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
To advance the practice of precision medicine through better use of genetic testing, a new limited liability corporation (LLC) was formed. Participating in the LLC are North Shore-LIJ Heal…
PAML Joint Venture News from The Dark Report Intelligence
November 2, 2007 PAML and HCA Agree to Start New Lab Joint Venture in Utah …
UnitedHealthcare Comments on Labs’ Use of “Fee Waivers”
PATHOLOGISTS AND LAB SCIENTISTS are familiar with the well-known scientific principle that, “for every action, there is a reaction.” This principle also holds true for the managed care contracting practices of the two national laboratory companies. One action that is the subject of this story is…
DAT: Should Patients Have Access to All Laboratory Tests?
CEO SUMMARY: Arizona’s new direct access testing law allows consumers and patients to have access to all laboratory tests without a physicians’ order. But one lab company decided not to offer all lab tests to consumers. Instead, executives at Sonora Quest Laboratories recognize that, …
Might Lawsuits Come Next in Theranos Story?
CEO SUMMARY: Recent disclosures in the news indicate that an agreement between Theranos and Safeway has gone sour— after Safeway spent a third of a billion dollars to fulfill its part of the collaboration! Reporting by The Wall Street Journal c…
New Company Targets Lab Benefit Management
CEO SUMMARY: Soon, the nation’s newest laboratory benefit management company will begin working for Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina. Avalon Healthcare Solutions committed to BCBSSC that it can save money off what the health plan has been spending on clinical lab testing. It wil…
New DAT Law, Competition Heat Up Phoenix Market
CEO SUMMARY: In Arizona, Theranos supported a new state law this year that allows patients to order lab tests without a doctor’s order. Since the law took effect, that law and the ultra-low prices offered by Theranos are drawing away some cash-paying customers from one lab company that …
Will 2016 Bring Opportunity or Tribulations for Labs?
WE ARE JUST ABOUT EIGHT WEEKS FROM THE ADVENT OF 2016. Given the rapid transformation of healthcare that continues to unfold, it is timely to assess how clinical labs and pathology groups are likely to fare during the coming year. On the plus side, the ongoing evolution toward integration of clinica…
Lab Professionals Knew of Challenges at Theranos
CEO SUMMARY: For most of the past year, pathologists and medical laboratory professionals in the San Francisco and Phoenix markets were aware that Theranos was not delivering to patients and consumers the specific lab testing services it regularly touted in news stories and at conferences…
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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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