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Quest Acquires ‘Select Assets’ of Fresenius Medical Care
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 4 – March 10, 2025 Issue
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AND QUEST DIAGNOSTICS AGREED TO A DEAL in which Quest will provide laboratory testing services for the latter’s dialysis clinics in the United States. Separately, Quest Diagnostics will acquire “select assets” of Spectra Labora…
Gold Cards Offer Labs Limited Relief for Prior Auth Woes
By Virchow | From the Volume XXXI, No. 17 – December 16, 2024 Issue
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Managing Denials and Appeals of Clinical Lab, Path Claims
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI No. 15 – November 4, 2024 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Based on a study of denials and appeals involving about 20 million lab test claims, the team at XiFin Inc. presents here their findings. They also provide recommendations on steps labs can take to reduce denials and win a greater proportion of appeals. IN RECENT…
Physicians Tempted by Lure of In-Office Labs, Payers Balk
By Virchow | From the Volume XXXI, No. 14 – October 14, 2024 Issue
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Hurdles Continue When Labs Request Genetic Test Coverage
By Virchow | From the Volume XXXI, No. 13 – September 23, 2024 Issue
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Labs, Payers Don’t Like Prior Authorization for Genetic Tests
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 10 – July 22, 2024 Issue
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How Private Health Insurers May Respond to FDA LDT Regulation
By Virchow | From the Volume XXXI, No. 8 – June 10, 2024 Issue
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UnitedHealth Group Faces DOJ Antitrust Probe
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 6 – April 29, 2024 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Recent events have not been kind to UnitedHealth Group and its subsidiaries UnitedHealthcare and Optum. In February, just as UHG’s Change Healthcare division was hit with a major cyberattack that disrupted billions of dolla…
Payer Contracts with Labs: Getting the Contract Is Just the Start
By Virchow | From the Volume XXXI, No. 6 – April 29, 2024 Issue
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CMS Issues AI Guidance for Medicare Advantage
By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXXI, No. 3 – February 26, 2024 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: With its guidance on how Medicare Advantage plans should use artificial intelligence (AI) when making treatment decisions involving individual patients, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has opened one door in the coming debate on how the federal governme…
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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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