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NJ Lab Sues to Challenge Payers About Its Out-of-Network Status
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIV No. 1 – January 9, 2017 Issue
ONE WAY THAT A CLINICAL LAB can fight back against insurers who refuse to pay lab test claims is to sue them. That’s exactly what Medical Diagnostic Laboratories of Hamilton, N.J. is doing! Not only has MDL filed lawsuits against two major health insurance companies, but in one la…
How CMS ‘Mismanaged’ Pricing of Molecular Tests
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XX No. 5 – April 15, 2013 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: CMS and its contractors had ample opportunity to implement a new reimbursement system but failed to act in a timely manner, stated an expert familiar with the problem. The result is that laboratories, particularly those that have one or two proprietary molecular tests, are be…
Medicare Taken to Task about Molecular Test Pricing Method
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XX No. 5 – April 15, 2013 Issue
EDITOR’S NOTE: Submitted by Lâle White, CEO of XIFIN, Inc., of Carlsbad, California, this letter describes the problems caused by the Medicare program’s failure, as of January 1, 2013, to be ready to process and reimburse lab test claims for more than 100 new mo…
Damon Laboratories, Mitt Romney, and Politics
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XIX No. 12 – August 27, 2012 Issue
IT IS SELDOM THAT THE CLINICAL LABORATORY INDUSTRY HITS THE RADAR SCREEN during a presidential election. So it is with some interest that I report to you that Mitt Romney recently touted the lessons he learned while serving on the board of Damon Clinical Laboratories, Inc., as useful…
Myriad Wins Federal Appeal In Important Gene Patent Suit
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII No. 11 – August 15, 2011 Issue
IN THE CLOSELY-WATCHED COURT CHALLENGE involving gene patents, Myriad Genetics, Inc., of Salt Lake City, Utah, recently won a favorable decision from the federal appeals court. However, legal experts believe that the plaintiffs are likely to ask the Supreme Court to review the case. …
September 29, 2008 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 13 – September 29, 2008 Issue
It’s been a productive year for Michigan Co-Tenancy Laboratory (MCL) of Ann Arbor, Michigan, which performs reference and esoteric testing for its members. During 2008, four hospital systems have come aboard as new co-tenants. They are: Baptist Health, Montgomery, …
Lots of IVD Acquisitions as Buyers Spend Money
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 5 – April 2, 2007 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Biggest deal in recent weeks was the $1.55 billion Beckman Coulter paid to acquire BioSite and its Triage BNP test. But the most interesting news may be the entry of 3M Corporation into clinical diagnostics, based on its acquisition of Acolyte Biomedica Ltd.,…
More IVD Consolidation: DPC Sells to Siemens
CEO SUMMARY: It is a significant acquisition, and not just because Diagnostic Products Corporation has a major presence in immunodiagnostics. Siemens Medical Solutions is one of the dominant competitors in radiology. Its willingness to pony up almost $2 billion t…
“May 9, 2005 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XII No. 7 – May 9, 2005 Issue
Tight-lipped executives at Meridian Bioscience, Inc. have yet to speak in public on any aspect of how live H2N2 influenza virus found its way into the virology proficiency test kits it shipped to thousands of labs on behalf of four lab proficiency testing organizations. Meridian, bas…
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