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Palo Alto Needle Reuse Episode Widens in Scope

By Robert Michel, from the Volume VI No. 8 - June 7, 1999 issue

CEO SUMMARY: As many as 15,000 people have been offered free blood testing because they may have been drawn by this phlebotomist since 1994. Regulatory action, private lawsuits, and media coverage are subjecting laboratories to unwelcome, even unwarranted, scrutiny. As the ramifications of this phlebotomist’s decision to reuse needles ripples through the healthcare system, lab

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Volume XXVI No. 5 – April 8, 2019

IT'S A FIRST FOR THE CLINICAL LAB INDUSTRY - and American industry as a whole. This issue exclusively reveals that after two years of testing, a lab has achieved the first revenue-generating flight of an unmanned drone in the U.S. Now, the lab's transport of supplies and specimens can safely bypass traffic regularly. Remarkably, the project has involved the cooperation of UPS and both the FAA and state regulators. Also, TDR reports that another government initiative, the National Correct Coding Initiative, has apparently gone awry. Labs could be harmed if they submit claims incorrectly based on the NCCI.

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