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Florida Pathology Group Lost Volume After BeaconLBS Started

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII No. 9 – July 5, 2016 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: A 22-physician pathology group in Tampa has complied with rules for lab test ordering that UnitedHealthcare and BeaconLBS established, yet has experienced a steep decline in the volume of specimens it receives. Physicians told the pathologists that other labs were not using t…

UPMC-KingMed Digital Pathology Venture Improves Patient Care

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII No. 4 – March 21, 2016 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Many experts think that digital pathology will make it possible to create international pathology subspecialty referral networks. Now in its fifth year, a partnership between UPMC’s Pathology Department and KingMed Diagnostics of China uses telepathology to give Chinese pat…

Lab Serving Large MD Group Manages Quality and Costs

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXI NO. 6 – April 28, 2014 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: For decades, pathologists have pointed out that their expertise in laboratory medicine can be tapped by physicians to improve utilization of lab tests, contribute to improved patient outcomes, and reduce the overall cost of care. Exactly that is now happening at Atrius Heal…

Anatomic Pathology Business Faces Uncertain Future

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXI No. 4 – March 17, 2014 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: There’s a day of reckoning on the way for the traditional business model of the private pathology group practice. At most risk are smaller pathology groups that typically have five or fewer pathologists. Blame it on the reduced prices that Medicare and private insurers are …

Maine’s Spectrum Medical Group Offers Multiple Specialties

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXI No. 4 – March 17, 2014 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Pathologists looking for a viable future in a healthcare system marked by integration of clinical care and value-based reimbursement will be interested to learn about Spectrum Medical Group based in Portland, Maine. This 180-member multispecialist group includes 22 pathologis…

Ottawa Pathology Lab Cuts Turnaround Time By More Than 50%

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XX No.14 – October 21, 2013 Issue

CEO Summary: Pathologists at Ottawa Hospital not only must handle a large volume of specimens regularly, but are experiencing a 14% per year growth in the number of specimens. Last year, when the average turnaround time for a case was nine days, the pathology department embarked …

Genesis Outreach Lab Acquired by LabCorp

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XX No. 10 – July 29, 2013 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Sources say that Genesis Clinical Laboratory of Berwyn, Illinois, owned by McNeal Hospital, is being sold to Laboratory Corporation of America. Neither party has publicly acknowledged completion of the sale. It is the latest example of consolidation within the clinical lab in…

Pathology Labs Want Method To Correct Specimen ID Errors

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XX No. 1 – January 22, 2013 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: When pathology labs discover instances of a misidentified or contaminated tissue specimen, there is a new service that allows them to retrospectively use DNA to properly match that specimen to the correct patient. In part two of our series, we look at how some pathology labs …

New Business Helps Reduce Pathology Specimen ID Errors

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XIX No. 17 – December 10, 2012 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Prevention of diagnostic testing errors is getting more attention by both physicians and pathology labs because patients are less tolerant of potentially life-changing errors. Strand Diagnostics’ Know Error system is designed to reduce or eliminate errors involving tissue s…

MD Self-Referral Issues Target of Utilization Study

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIX No. 6 – April 23, 2012 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: When it comes to the in-office ancillary service (IOAS) exception to physician self-referral, the issue of in-clinic pathology services has become a hot potato. Publication in Health Affairs of a study of urologists’ self-referral of their patients for anatomic pathology se…

Volume XXXII, No. 1 – January 6, 2025

The Dark Report examines how AI is being used to predict the outcomes of FDA LDT lawsuits. Also, this issue is Part Two of a series about boosting pathology compensation in different settings, including hospitals. Two experienced pathology consultants identify the most effective approaches when negotiating Part A pathology agreements with hospitals and health systems, along with how to use data to bolster these negotiations.

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