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XIFIN to Open New Office in South Carolina for Lab Billing
SINCE FEBRUARY, THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PEOPLE VACCINATED grew steadily even as the number of tests for COVID-19 declined sharply in the United States. But overall test volume has remained steady at 130% of pre-pandemic levels, said Brian Kemp, Vice President of Revenue Cycle Operations for XIFIN,…
Ohio State University Medical Center Inks Pact To Adopt Digital Pathology
CEO SUMMARY: For years, the adoption of digital pathology has lagged behind the predictions of its advocates. That has encouraged one digital pathology company—Inspirata, Inc., of Tampa—to come up with a different business strategy designed to help anatomic pathology labs address the …
Form 5010 Update: Medicare Extends 5010 Implementation For a Second Time, Effective July 1, 2012 – The Dark Report April 21, 2012
CEO SUMMARY: FACED WITH THE FACT that many payers were not ready to implement the 5010 standard under the …
PathCentral Launches Sale of New Anatomic Pathology LIS
THERE IS A NEW PLAYER in the market for anatomic pathology laboratory information systems (APLIS). This gives pathology groups a new option when it is time to upgrade or replace their existing APLIS. It also brings a new competitor into the existing market for anatomic pathology (AP) software. In re…
Ascend Clinical Acquires PathCentral Lab Business
CEO SUMMARY: Ascend Clinical and PathCentral see an opportunity to provide sophisticated services to community pathology groups. Ascend Clinical will expand the molecular diagnostic and gene sequencing business it is purchasing from PathCentral. PathCentral will concentrate on marketing i…
Medicare Extends 5010 Implementation for a Second Time, Effective July 1, 2012
FACED WITH THE FACT that many payers were not ready to implement the 5010 standard under the Health Insurance Portability and Affordability Act (HIPAA), on March 15, the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a second delay in enforcement of the standard…
January 9, 2012 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
China-based Kindstar Globalgene Technology, Inc. (Kindstar), of Wuhan, Hubei Province, entered into an agreement to acquire and use the web-based anatomic pathology laboratory information system (APLIS) developed and sold by PathCentral, Inc., of Irvine, California. …
New Clinical Lab Trends To Shape Events in 2010
CEO SUMMARY: In presenting this list of macro trends for clinical laboratories, several themes are in play. They range from a continued emphasis on improving lab operations to the need to acquire and deploy sophisticated information technology. During the next few years, the long…
Emerging Global Trends in How Labs Are Using “Distributed Computing”
“In several different countries, laboratories already use ‘distributed computing’, in the form of a single LIS data center that provides informatics services to as many as 25 laboratories in a region. The trend is to increase interoperability and portability of the i…
Pumping Up Performance of Lab Billing & Collections
CEO SUMMARY: Coding, billing, collections, and compliance continue to grow in complexity, making management of the lab’s revenue cycle ever more difficult. One by one, a number of the nation’s largest laboratories are taking steps to automate management of their revenue cycle by utili…
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Volume XXX No. 4 – March 6, 2023
Readers will uncover a theme of mergers and consolidations running throughout this issue of The Dark Report. Case in point is our story about the pending merger between Sanford Health and Fairview Health Services. If the deal goes through, the new system will have 58 hospitals across five states. The Dark Report also notes revenues from Labcorp’s acquisition of Ascension Health, and reports on the creation of a major MT training center in Utah.
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