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Feds Show How Labs Took $500 Million from Medicare
CEO SUMMARY: In this second phase of the whistleblower case against three cardiology testing labs and a sales consulting company, federal prosecutors are requesting a jury trial against the individuals named in the court documents filed August 7. Federal investigators alleged t…
LabCorp Loses A Hospital Lab Joint Venture
ONE OF THE NATION’S LONGEST-RUNNING LAB OUTREACH JOINT VENTURES involving a public lab company and a major hospital came to a quiet end on June 30. That’s the day when United/Dynacare Laboratories, LLC, ceased to exist. This was a joint venture in Milwaukee that was established …
Detroit Hospital Develops 10 Ways To Add More Value
CEO SUMMARY: Clinical labs are beginning to make the transition from a volume-based financial model to a model based on value-based payments. To survive this transition, labs must find ways to create value. The lab at Henry Ford Health System has identified 10 ways that it c…
August 24, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
California is always in the forefront of states doing innovative things. It announced a public-private effort to develop a clinical laboratory assay that “will enable detection of all known pathogens with a single DNA sequencing test, to diagnose acute infections in hospitalized patients.” Fundin…
Investment Bank Bullish On Clinical Labs, Pathology
CEO SUMMARY: For clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology groups willing to adapt to the evolving needs of the American healthcare system, there are many positive opportunities. That’s the view of a Wall Street investment bank that just published a report on the lab testing…
Theranos, Capital Blue Sign Lab Test Agreement
CEO SUMMARY: With each passing month, Theranos is looking more like a traditional clinical laboratory company, based on how it is expanding its patient service center network and courier/logistics system into different regions while pursuing managed care contracts with health ins…
Combining Lean Techniques with Lab Automation to Get Impressive Results
PROBABLY NO AREA OF CLINICAL LABORATORY MEDICINE is experiencing the dramatic transformation happening in microbiol…
Newer, Smaller Analyzers Will Bring Big Data to Labs
CEO SUMMARY: Clinical laboratories of all sizes are poised to become the source of much of a hospital or health system’s “big data.” At many academic center labs, greater use of genetic and molecular testing requires that more space and more staff be devoted to data management. A…
Combining Lean with Lab Automation to Get Impressive Results
CEO SUMMARY: By combining total lab automation with Lean techniques in a comprehensive makeover of its microbiology lab, one of the largest labs providing hospital acute care and community microbiology services in North America achieved major benefits. Benefits ranged from impro…
Medi-Cal to Cut Lab Pay on July 1 by 25% to 30%
CEO SUMMARY: Since 2011, state officials in California have aggressively cut laboratory testing fees for Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program. Now state officials say they will implement a new methodology next month for determining lab testing fees. The new methodology is based…
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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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