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CEO Offers Lab Strategies for a Post-PAMA World
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXVI No. 1 – January 14, 2019 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: With so many market forces working against the economic interests of clinical laboratories, it is essential that all labs develop appropriate strategies designed to sustain the quality of laboratory testing services and the financial integrity of the laboratory organization. …
Hospital Lab Data Essential For CMS Market Price Study
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIV No. 10 – July 17, 2017 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In five months, Medicare officials will implement a new Part B clinical laboratory fee schedule based on private payer lab price data submitted by certain medical laboratories required to report that data. At this year’s Executive War College, the CEO of XIFIN, Inc., reported o…
Expert Explains Why Payer Errors Skew Labs’ PAMA Price Data
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII No. 16 – November 28, 2016 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In its work with more than 200 lab clients, XIFIN, Inc., of San Diego, sees the best and worst of problems in how labs submit claims to lab tests and how payers process these claims. In this exclusive interview, Lâle White, XIFIN’s Founder and CEO, identifies the systemic …
Widespread payer errors will cause headaches as Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 price reporting comes due
By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXIII No. 16 – November 28, 2016 Issue
This is an excerpt from a 2,700-word article in the November 28 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. …
Test price data shows major difference between Medicare lab fee schedule and private payers
By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXIII No. 15 – November 7, 2016 Issue
This is an excerpt from a 1,500-word article in the November 7 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: THE DA…
XIFIN Analysis of Its Real Price Data Shows Hospital Lab Price Effect
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII No. 15 – November 7, 2016 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In a new analysis of data its lab clients will use to report market prices to CMS, XIFIN Inc., reports private payers paid independent labs a weighted average price that was 19.6% less than what Medicare pays for 20 of its highest-volume tests. By contrast, private payers pa…
New Company Ready to Heat Up Slow Digital Pathology Market
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXII No. 11 – August 3, 2015 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: There’s a new competitor in the digital pathology marketplace with ambitious plans to deliver a fully-integrated pathologist workflow solution. Inspirata, Inc., of Tampa, Florida, made its debut in March at an international pathology conference. In this exclusive i…
September 9, 2013 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XX No. 12 – September 9, 2013 Issue
bioMérieux is on the move. Last week it announced that it would pay $450 million to purchase privately-held BioFire Diagnostics of Salt Lake City, Utah. BioFire has a solid tech- nology base in molecular diagnostics. It developed and currently markets its FilmArray…
Low 2013 Molecular Rates May Bankrupt Some Labs
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XX No. 2 February 11, 2013 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Many of the recently issued reimbursement rates for molecular diagnostic tests are inadequate and in fact are lower than the cost of running the tests, lab experts say. Smaller laboratories that specialize in developing and selling molecular tests could be forced to close. As…
aLabs Now Manages Labs for Major Health Systems
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIX No. 9 – June 25, 2012 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Established with a unique business plan unseen to date in the lab testing industry, aLabs has already entered into laboratory management services contracts with major health systems in Milwaukee and San Diego. This is an impressive start for a newly-formed company that has no…
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