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MT/MLT Distance Learning Goal of Collaboration: ARUP and Weber State team up to make it easier for interested lab staff to advance skills
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XV No. 11 – August 18, 2008 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: To encourage more students to pursue medical technology (MT) and medical laboratory technician (MLT) degrees, ARUP Laboratories and Weber State University (WSU) are collaborating to promote the distance learning programs offered at WSU. Online students can work any shift…
Opportunities Ahead for Labs That Prepare
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXII, Number 17 – December 7, 2015 Issue
AT THE END OF EVERY YEAR, IT’S ALWAYS SMART BUSINESS FOR EVERY LAB to peer into the future specifically to identify the best clinical and financial opportunities. With the New Year just a few week…
Coming Next Year for Labs: PAMA, FDA, LDTs, and More
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXII, Number 17 – December 7, 2015 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: As 2016 approaches, nearly every lab organization is watching and waiting to learn how federal regulators at CMS and the FDA will move forward with plans to implement PAMA market reporting and regulation of laboratory-developed tests, respectively. Most knowledgeable observer…
Letter to Florida Doctor Offers to Waive Lab Test Fees
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXII, Number 17 – December 7, 2015 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Florida’s highly-competitive market for lab testing services is again seeing some lab companies use “Waiver of Charges to Managed Care Patients†agreements with physicians in situations where the lab is an out-of-network provider. This means the lab will do free testing…
Lab Professionals Long Knew of Challenges at Theranos
By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXII No. 15 – October 26, 2015 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: As THE DARK REPORT has continually reported, pathologists and medical laboratory professionals in the San Francisco and Phoenix markets were aware for most of the past year that Theranos was not delivering to patients and consumers the specific lab testing services it regula…
WSJ ‘Sticks’ Theranos, Raises Serious Questions
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXII No. 15 – October 26, 2015 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Following months of investigation, reporter John Carreyrou of The Wall Street Journal published back-to-back reports about aspects of Theranos that the…
Lab Professionals Knew of Challenges at Theranos
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXII No. 15 – October 26, 2015 Issue
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…
October 5, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXII No. 14 – October 5, 2015 Issue
More venture capital money is moving into the medical laboratory industry in India. In September, Metropolis Healthcare Ltd of Mumbai, India, disclosed that Carlyle, a private equity company, had purchased a 36.5% ownership interest in the lab company. In April, Warburg Pincus …
Labs Have Questions for CMS on Proposed Rule
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXII No. 14 – October 5, 2015 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: On September 25, CMS took a long overdue step to issue a proposed rule on how medical laboratories are to report private market prices for lab tests to the Medicare program during 2016. The proposed rule provides insights as to how CMS envisions pricing new tests and advanced…
Tasso’s Device Collects Capillary Blood for Testing
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXII No. 14 – October 5, 2015 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In Seattle, Tasso Inc., a start-up company, is developing a device that adheres to the skin and collects capillary blood that can be used for lab testing. Tasso says the device is a less invasive than a venipuncture. At the same time, executives at Tasso recognize that, for m…
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