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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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April 29, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 6 – April 29, 2024 Issue
It may be that the genetic data cat is out of the bag already. Nonetheless, lawmakers in Delaware are considering a bill that—among other things—would prevent life insurance companies from buying or using genetic testing data if it was obtained from ancestry companies and not from medical records…
Feds Bar Elizabeth Holmes from Government Health Programs
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 2 – February 5, 2024 Issue
ONCE AGAIN, ELIZABETH HOLMES, THE DISGRACED FORMER CEO OF THERANOS, is in the news. This time it is because the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) announced in January that Elizabeth Holmes is …
Layoffs at Major Health Plans Slow Processing of Lab Claims
By Virchow | From the Volume XXXI, Number 1 – January 16, 2024 Issue
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Year’s Top 10 Lab Stories Contain Surprises & Twists
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, Number 18 – December 26, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: With the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic now in the rearview mirror of the nation’s clinical labs and pathology groups, the important news stories of 2023 were mostly about developments where the consequences will influence laboratory operations in coming years. Artificial intelligence…
Congress Delays PAMA Fee Cuts, Passage of SALSA Act Is Goal
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, Number 18 – December 26, 2023 Issue
ONCE AGAIN, THE CLINICAL LABORATORY INDUSTRY DODGED THE MEDICARE FEE-CUT BULLET. Last month, Congress passed a bill that included a one-year reprieve to the impending PAMA reimbursement cuts that were scheduled to take place on January 1, 2024. The lab industry…
Violating EKRA Earns Lab Owner an Eight-Year Prison Sentence
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, Number 18 – December 26, 2023 Issue
THIS MAY BE THE MOST HIGH-PROFILE CASE involving a clinical laboratory and the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act of 2018 (EKRA). Former Arrayit Corporation president Mark Schena was sentenced in October 2023 to eight years in federal prison and ordered to pay $24 million in resti…
Healthcare Fraud Cases Include Decades-Long Cases of Deceit
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, Number 16 – November 13, 2023 Issue
Healthcare fraud cases continue to receive harsh penalties from the federal government as indicated in the case of a California clinical laboratory owner and her husband who attempted to defraud the government of millions of dollars. Lourdes Navarro and husband Imran Shams attempted to defraud ins…
Gaining Network Access with Payers Is Often about Geography
By Virchow | From the Volume XXX, Number 15 – October 23, 2023 Issue
EDITOR’S NOTE: Our column, Virchow, is written by anonymous insiders working within the managed…
FDA’s Road to Regulation of Lab Developed Tests
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, No. 14 – October 2, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Today’s generation of clinical lab managers and pathologists should understand that the FDA’s efforts to publish a draft rule defining its authority to review laboratory developed tests (LD…
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