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Lab Benefit Management Bill Advances in FL Senate
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII, No. 2 – February 8, 2016 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: To date, a bill to restrict how health insurers use lab benefit management systems such as UnitedHealthcare’s BeaconLBS, has been favorably received in the Florida Senate. But the bill may face opposition when presented to the Senate’s Appropriations Committee. In a repor…
Catholic Health Initiatives Signs Pact with PAML
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XVI No. 15 – November 02, 2009 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In concept, it is a simple deal. Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI), the nationâ…
PAML Joint Venture News from The Dark Report Intelligence
November 2, 2007 PAML and HCA Agree to Start New Lab Joint Venture in Utah …
September 14, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXII NO. 13 – September 14, 2015 Issue
There is a new national group that has the goal of addressing diagnostic errors in medicine. It is called the Coalition to Improve Diagnosis and became opera- tional last month. The new group was organized by the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM). Eleven organizations are …
More AP Consolidation: Aurora Buys Two Groups
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXII No. 12 – August 24, 2015 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Seeing the changes overtaking pathology practices, Brazos Valley Pathology decided to sell two of its group practices to Aurora Diagnostics. Last month’s transaction was not designed to fix financial problems nor was it because of retiring pathologists. Rather, it …
Lab Briefs
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXII No. 12 – August 24, 2015 Issue
QUEST SETTLESÂ TEST-PRICING CASE WITH FOUR CALIFORNIA LABS LAST WEEK, A CALIFORNIA JUDGE APPROVED the settlement of a lawsuit that claimed Quest Diagnostics Incorporated had violated a state law that forbids selling services (in this case, lab testing) below cost. In a deci…
April 20, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXII No. 6 – April 20, 2015 Issue
It’s a lawsuit that Quest Diagnostics Incorporated can’t seem to make go away. Last week in California, a federal judge ruled Hunter Laboratories and Surgical Pathology Associates (SPA) can continue to pursue their antitrust lawsuit against Quest Diagnostics. …
Is PAML to Be Sold? ‘No Comment!’ Say Execs
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXI No. 17 – December 15, 2014 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: It is one of the 10 largest lab companies in the United States. Thus, if Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories in Spokane, Washington, were to be sold, it would trigger a major shift in the competitive market for lab testing service…
August 11, 2014 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXI No. 11 – August 11, 2014 Issue
There is a new case of crime involving a private pathology group practice. In Stockton, California, the Stockton Record reported on August 9 that pathologist Elvira Milano, M.D., was expected to post bond and be released from jail on that date. She faces charges of embezzlement while serving…
Test Utilization Targeted by UnitedHealth, LabCorp
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXI No. 10 – July 21, 2014 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Many independent laboratories serving patients in Florida are unhappy about the decision by UnitedHealth (UNH) to initiate a pilot program that calls for LabCorp’s BeaconLBS subsidiary to handle prior authorization for certain lab tests. UNH’s laboratory benefit managemen…
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