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May 29, 2018 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News

By Robert Michel, from the Volume XXV No. 8 – May 29, 2018 issue

Ireland is dealing with a cervical cancer screening scandal that reaches back to laboratories in the United States. In recent months, the Irish public has learned that more than 200 women wrongly got negative Pap test results over a multi-year period. Many of these women did not learn of the erroneous test results for years after

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May 7, 2018 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News

By Robert Michel, from the Volume XXV No. 7 – May 7, 2018 issue

In Sebastopol, Calif., the financially-troubled Sonoma West Medical Center (SWMC) dropped a controversial drugs-of-abuse testing program. The following month, without the revenue from the drug testing program, 37-bed SWMC lost $1.4 million. In 2017, the hospital entered into a pass-through billing arrangement with a Florida attorney, Aaron Durall and his lab company, Reliance Laboratory Testing.

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Volume XXVI No. 2 – February 4, 2019

NOW THAT MOST HOSPITALS ARE INCLUDED as applicable laboratories that must report their PAMA private payer lab test price data to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, managers of those labs will benefit from the incisive analysis in this issue of the lessons learned during the 2017 PAMA reporting cycle. THE DARK REPORT further offers recommendations on how labs can do a better job of gathering and reporting their own data to CMS. Also, TDR delivers an exclusive analysis of why the Government Accounting Office's assertion that CMS will be paying billions more for Part B clinical lab tests is simply wrong.

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