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Quest, Sonic Issue Statements about Pap Test Issues in Ireland

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXV No. 11 – July 30, 2018 Issue

PROBLEMS WITH CERVICAL CANCER SCREENING IN IRELAND continue to make headlines in the Irish newspapers and roil the Irish health system. Caught up in this story are two billion-dollar lab companies that performed cervical cancer screening under contract to the Irish Health Service. T…

Theranos News Gets Worse for the Former Silicon Valley Hero

By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXV No. 9 – June 18, 2018 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: In a tale of two fraudsters, the Department of Justice has filed a warning shot to all technology startups: Criminal indictments against Elizabeth Holmes and Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani could mean prison time and massive fines. In this latest Theranos news, The DOJ ci…

Holmes, Balwani Indicted by Department of Justice

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXV No. 9 – June 18, 2018 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Federal criminal indictments were unsealed last Friday in San Francisco against Elizabeth Holmes and Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani for their actions as executives at Theranos, Inc., the once high-flying lab test company. Officials at the Department of Justice said the counts aga…

LabCorp, Quest Diagnostics Report Improved Q-3 Revenue

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXI No. 15 – November 3, 2014 Issue

THIRD QUARTER EARNINGS at each of the nation’s two biggest public lab companies showed improved growth in revenue and specimen volume, as compared to recent years. Laboratory Corporation of America was first to release its financial report for the quarter ending September 30, 2014…

Tricare, DOD Not Paying for MoPath Codes, LDTs

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXI No. 1 – January 13, 2014 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: It turns out that labs serving Tricare patients are going unpaid for certain LDTs, molecular, and genetic tests. The issue of nonpayment began in January 2013 when Tricare stopped paying for these tests that were billed under the new molecular CPT codes that replaced the prev…

Alberta Lab RFP, FTC, LabMD Biodiagnostic Lab Services Guilty Pleas

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XX No. 13 – September 30, 2013 Issue

ALBERTA PROVINCE MAY SOON BID $3 BILLION CLINICAL LAB CONTRACT NEWS LEAKED ON SEPTEMBER 19 that Alberta Health Services (AHS) is preparing to issue a request for proposal (RFP) to select a company to build a state-of-the clinical laboratory facility to serve…

Aetna To Lower Lab Test Prices, New Fees Are Effective on July 1

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XX No. 7 – May 28, 2013 Issue

IN RECENT MONTHS, labs are reporting the receipt of letters from Aetna, Inc., announcing that it will pay dramatically less than Medicare prices for many key lab tests. Aetna said that these lower prices will take effect on July 1, 2013. Three examples illustrate the deep fee cuts t…

July 05, 2011 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVIII No. 9 – July 5, 2011 Issue

Two laboratory companies based in Spokane, Washington, were recently recognized in a list of Washington State’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” in 2011. One was Incyte Pathology, Inc., an anatomic pathology group. The other was Pathology Associates Medical Laboratori…

Office-Based Physicians Want In-Clinic Laboratories

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XVIII No. 6 – May 2, 2011 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Interest by office-based physicians in creating an in-clinic medical testing laboratory is on the increase. This has direct consequences for independent commercial labs, hospital lab outreach programs, and anatomic pathology groups, since office- based physicians are…

Diagnostic Errors Get Attention As Next Patient Safety Goal

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVI No. 5 – April 6, 2009 Issue

PHYSICIAN LEADERS IN PATIENT SAFETY are turning up the heat on doctors to reduce the incidence of diagnostic errors. This is a topic few dared to openly discuss until recently. It is directly linked to Medicare and private payer efforts to crack down on medical errors. This development has profound …

Volume XXXI, No. 16 – November 25, 2024

Two different federal lawsuits that challenge the authority of the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate laboratory developed tests (LDTs) will be combined. Plaintiffs and the government in both cases agreed to move forward on this basis.

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