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Allina Will Join Sutter, Focus on Digital Growth
CEO SUMMARY: Minnesota-based Allina Health’s plans to join Sutter Health in California would create a multi-regional integrated delivery network backed by a $2 billion push into digital and outpatient care. As has been illustrated by past agreements and mergers, clinical…
There’s Good and Bad News about Allina-Sutter Deal
Allina Health, Sutter Health, diagnostic laboratories, integrated delivery network, IDN, artificial intelligence, AI, bot, RAND Journal of Economics, …
Major Players Back Robotic Phlebotomy with $70M
While total laboratory automation has permanently altered the analytical phase of clinical laboratory work, the front-end collection process has remained a stubbornly manual, labor-intensive bottleneck. However, that may be about to change, based on early signs….
Violating EKRA Earns Lab Owner an Eight-Year Prison Sentence
THIS MAY BE THE MOST HIGH-PROFILE CASE involving a clinical laboratory and the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act of 2018 (EKRA). Former Arrayit Corporation president Mark Schena was sentenced in October 2023 to eight years in federal prison and ordered to pay $24 million in resti…
CURRENT ISSUE
Volume XXXIII, No. 8 – June, 2026
Congress Returns to CLIA Reform with Proposed LDT Framework, and the Newly Filed Enhancing CLIA Act seeks to modernize clinical laboratory regulations. A newly introduced federal bill could signal the next chapter in the long-running debate over how laboratory developed tests (LDTs) should be regulated in the United States.
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