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Competency Assessments Prove To Be a Nagging CLIA Deficiency
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX, No. 11 – July 31, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Competency assessment problems rank high among frequently cited deficiencies during CLIA inspections. Representatives from the CAP, COLA, and The Joint Commission explain what areas to…
Health Insurers Spending Billions to Diversify
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXVI No. 15 – November 4, 2019 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: One big development affecting the health insurance business is how four of the nation’s largest health insurers are diversifying in significant ways. Last spring, a healthcare strategist explained how each of these companies has spent billions of dollars in recent years to …
Health Insurers Spending Billions to Diversify
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXVI No. 15 – November 4, 2019 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: One big development affecting the health insurance business is how four of the nation’s largest health insurers are diversifying in significant ways. Last spring, a healthcare strategist explained how each of these companies has spent billions of dollars in recent years to …
Is Your Lab Prepared for More Tough Challenges?
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXVI No. 4 – March 18, 2019 Issue
THERE IS A NEW FAVORITE WORD WALL STREET ANALYST USE when they want to describe an industry that is going to experience tough times that will make it difficult for companies to grow and remain profitable. That word is “headwinds” and it can aptly be applied to the multiple tough challenges that a…
In Tough Times, All Labs Need Success Strategies
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXVI No. 2 – February 4, 2019 Issue
By any measure, it is tougher today for clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology groups to generate the revenue needed to deliver state-of-the-art diagnostic testing services while remaining financially viable. Four recent trends prove the point. First, every year, the Medicare program and priva…
Why PAMA May Be Poised to Disrupt Lab Industry
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVI No. 1 – January 14, 2019 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: This will be one of the most challenging years facing the clinical lab industry since the early 1990s, when closed panel HMOs were the disruptive force that generated deep cuts in lab test prices. However, unlike HMOs of that era, the CMS scheme to collect private payer lab t…
Is There a Future for Hospital Lab Outreach Programs?
By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXVI No. 1 – January 14, 2019 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: This will be one of the most challenging years facing the clinical lab industry since the early 1990s. The CMS scheme to collect private payer lab test prices and use that data to set Medicare clinical laboratory test pric…
Two Major, Disruptive Changes Coming to Labs
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXV No. 4 – March 5, 2018 Issue
TWO MAJOR, DISRUPTIVE CHANGES lie ahead for both clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology group practices. Each disruptive factor has nothing to do with how payers select in-network labs or reimburse for lab testing services. Rather, one of these two major changes involves fundamental advances i…
Strategies to Offset Medicare Cuts to Be Shared at Exec. War College
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXV No. 3 – February 12, 2018 Issue
DEEP PRICE CUTS to the Medicare Part B Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule was the big story of 2017. The big story of 2018 may be the widespread financial disruption to the clinical lab industry as labs see dramatic declines in their revenue from these Medicare fee cuts. One early opportunity for lab …
Cautious Optimism Seen At Dark Report’s Executive War College
By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXIV No. 7 – May 15, 2017 Issue
This is an excerpt from an 850-word article in the May 15, 2017, issue of THE DARK REPORT. The complete article is available for a limited time to all readers, and available at all times to paid members of the Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: There…
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