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August 12, 2019 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVI No. 11 – August 12, 2019 Issue
Add eight more laboratories to the list of lab companies whose patient data were breached when the American Medical Collection Agency was hacked. According to HealthITSecurity, in recent weeks, these labs reported breaches of their patient records: Natera …
July 22, 2019 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVI No. 10 – July 22, 2019 Issue
Another clinical laboratory company disclosed a major breach of its patients’ protected health information (PHI). On July 15, Clinical Pathology Laboratories (CPL), a division of Sonic Healthcare, issued a press release and disclosed that it estimated as many as 2…
Nine Lab Groups Say New NCCI Policy Is Inconsistent
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXVI No. 5 – April 8, 2019 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: By its name alone, the National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) Policy Manual implies that it will be accurate and consistent with other coding initiatives. But nine groups representing various clinical laboratories say NCCI guidelines that the federal Centers for Medicare a…
Boyce & Bynum Sells to Quest Diagnostics
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXV No. 18 – December 24, 2018 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: With the year end approaching, lab buyers and sellers are working to finalize deals that may have been in discussion for months. The first big lab acquisition for this season came on Nov. 27, when Quest Diagnostics announced it was acquiring Boyce and Bynum Pathology Laborato…
December 3, 2018 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXV No. 17 – December 3, 2018 Issue
Another long-established regional laboratory company is about to be acquired. On November 27, Boyce and Bynum Pathology Laboratories of Columbia, Mo., disclosed that it had entered an agreement to be acquired by Quest Diagnostics Inc. Notably, the press release abou…
U of Florida Health Improves Patient Care with PGx Testing
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXV No. 17 – December 3, 2018 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Since 2011, the University of Florida Health System has used pharmacogenetic test (PGx) results to guide physicians when they prescribe certain drugs. This initiative has improved patient outcomes, reduced the overall cost per episode of care, and gained partial reimbursemen…
Sonic Uses Lab Data, Patient-Contact Tools, to Improve Outcomes
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXV No. 16 – November 13, 2018 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In its work for a federally qualified health center, Sonic Healthcare USA helped physicians use a data-driven approach to population health management that incorporated integrated financial and clinical analytics. Also, Sonic developed technologies that give ordering physicia…
Biggest Lab Firms Diverge on Hospital Lab Strategies
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXV No. 13 – September 10, 2018 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Almost half of the nation’s hospitals and health systems are rethinking how to use their clinical labs to support clinical and financial strategies. Options range from outright sale of their lab outreach businesses to lab management agreements or joint ventures with one of …
Sonic Sees a Future in Lab JVs with Hospitals
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXV No. 12 – August 20, 2018 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In every partnership, each member has a unique point of view. Following the announcement of a new laboratory joint venture company involving ProMedica Health System and Sonic Healthcare USA, the Sonic executive who worked with ProMedica’s administrators to develop the JV ex…
ProMedica, Sonic Form Lab Outreach Joint Venture
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXV No. 12 – August 20, 2018 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Fast-growing ProMedica Health System of Toledo, Ohio, agreed to a laboratory joint venture with Sonic Healthcare USA. As lab budgets and prices for lab tests are squeezed downward, ProMedica sees opportunity to add volume to this new core lab facility to improve efficiency an…
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