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How Medicaid Cuts May Affect Clinical Labs
CEO Summary: As lawmakers debate the merits of President Donald Trump’s budget bill, it appears that Medicaid changes are on the horizon. For medical laboratories, three immediate areas to monitor include potentially decreased Medicaid recipients, federal cuts to Medicai…
Walgreens to Close 60 VillageMD Locations
CEO SUMMARY: Following substantial losses in fiscal 2023, Walgreens is working to cut costs and reduce overhead. One casualty in this effort will be the closure of 60 of the 360 primary care clinics in retail pharmacy stores built by Walgreens in recent years. These actions demonstrate th…
CURRENT ISSUE
Volume XXXII, No. 10 – July 14, 2025
This issue is strong on different flavors of enforcement that clinical laboratories, whether they want to or not, will need to contend with. Lab stakeholders provide insights that medical labs need to brace for more action to counter pending test reimbursement rate cuts under PAMA. Also, this issue provides the legal and regulatory landscape for clinical labs’ use of AI and how it evolves with the technology. AI is creating legal uncertainty for clinical labs, especially around data privacy and FDA oversight of AI tools in diagnostics.
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