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Medicare Fees Less Than Lab Costs to Serve SNFs?
CEO SUMMARY: Anticipating the negative financial impact of the Medicare 2018 Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule, a community lab company serving 24 nursing homes on the Jersey Shore stopped offering such services at the end of last year, a lab director told THE DARK REPORT. “The same forc…
Washington Post: Theranos Approached Military in 2012
SINCE THE WALL STREET JOURNAL published its exposé of Theranos Inc. in October, other media outlets have published the findings of their own investigations into various aspects of the lab company’s practices. One example is the disclosure by The Wall Street …
Locked Out of Payer Network, NH Hospital Opens Lab Company
CEO SUMMARY: Since Anthem launched its site of service program in New Hampshire in 2010, labs in the state’s hospitals have mostly been excluded from its network and have lost market share. Recently one community hospital developed an unusual strategy to win back those patients…
Is PAML to Be Sold? ‘No Comment!’ Say Execs
CEO SUMMARY: It is one of the 10 largest lab companies in the United States. Thus, if Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories in Spokane, Washington, were to be sold, it would trigger a major shift in the competitive market for lab testing service…
Could Health Insurers Be at War with Clinical Labs?
CEO SUMMARY: It may sound ridiculous to assert that the nation’s largest health insurers are now “waging war” against clinical labs. However, some very smart people in the profession of laboratory medicine are expressing this opinion. To support such a conclusion, they point to paye…
February 11, 2013 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Would it surprise you to learn that just five organizations control 91% of California’s health insurance market? At the top of the list is Kaiser Permanente, which holds a 40% share of the California market. Following, in order, were Anthem Blue Cross (23%), …
First-Mover Labs Reveal Success with Lean & QMS
CEO SUMMARY: There is good news for those clinical labs and pathology groups currently operating robust Lean, Six Sigma, and process improvement programs. The Institute of Medicine’s new report calls for all healthcare providers to rapidly transform themselves into ‘continuously learn…
Hospital Labs Feel More Pressure to Lower Prices
CEO SUMMARY: It’s a new trend and gathering momentum. At managed care contract renewal time, more hospitals and health systems report much stronger pressure from health insurers to accept deep cuts to laboratory test prices. At the same time, managed care companies are getting smarter a…
MedTox, Cleveland Clinic Labs, Apollo PACS, Dell, British Columbia Health
GENOME SEQUENCING TO BE OFFERED BY NORWAY IN NATIONAL HEALTH PLAN HERE’S A MILESTONE ON THE PATH TO PERSONALIZED MEDICINE. Norway is the first nation to announce that its national health system will incorporate whole genome sequencing. Cancer is the target of Norway’s f…
TriCore Earns Multi-Site CAP 15189 Accreditation
CEO SUMMARY: To achieve the goals of continuous improvement and standardization across all facilities within its organization, TriCore Reference Laboratories opted to implement the CAP 15189 quality management system (QMS). Last month, the lab announced its accreditation to CAP 1…
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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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