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CMS Releases Draft of PAMA Market Price Rule
CEO SUMMARY: CMS’ proposed rule details how it will collect private market data, then use that data to establish prices for the Medicare Part B Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule beginning in 2017. The proposed rule will limit data reporting to les…
Winning Bidder for HDL Connected to BlueWave
CEO SUMMARY: Events within the bankruptcy proceedings of Health Diagnostic Laboratory could be interpreted as setting the stage for the emergence of a laboratory company operated by executives-and marketed by a sales consultant-known to have had leadership roles in other lab companies accus…
Detroit Hospital Develops 10 Ways To Add More Value
CEO SUMMARY: Clinical labs are beginning to make the transition from a volume-based financial model to a model based on value-based payments. To survive this transition, labs must find ways to create value. The lab at Henry Ford Health System has identified 10 ways that it c…
Cigna Audits Tox Test Labs For Proof that Patients Paid
CEO SUMMARY: In an unusually strong move, health insurer Cigna is auditing laboratories, including some labs that do toxicology testing. In these audits, the health insurer seeks documentation that the testing is medically necessary and that the laboratories are collecting copaym…
Investment Bank Bullish On Clinical Labs, Pathology
CEO SUMMARY: For clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology groups willing to adapt to the evolving needs of the American healthcare system, there are many positive opportunities. That’s the view of a Wall Street investment bank that just published a report on the lab testing…
Combining Lean Techniques with Lab Automation to Get Impressive Results
PROBABLY NO AREA OF CLINICAL LABORATORY MEDICINE is experiencing the dramatic transformation happening in microbiol…
July 13, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
In a milestone for advocates of digital pathology, n anatomic pathology laboratory in The Netherlands has been identified as the first in the world to “transition completely to digital diagnosis.” The laboratory is Laboratorium Pathologie Oost-Nederland (LabPON), located in Hengelo. In a pres…
Combining Lean with Lab Automation to Get Impressive Results
CEO SUMMARY: By combining total lab automation with Lean techniques in a comprehensive makeover of its microbiology lab, one of the largest labs providing hospital acute care and community microbiology services in North America achieved major benefits. Benefits ranged from impro…
Deep-Discount Lab Prices to Haunt All California Labs
FOR MORE THAN 20 YEARS, THE CLINICAL LAB INDUSTRY been marked by a fundamental schism. On one side of the schism are the public lab companies that have aggressively used deeply-discounted loss-leader pricing practices when negotiating managed care contracts to capture market share. On the other si…
New MoPath Lab Coalition Takes its Case to Congress
CEO SUMMARY: Prices recently established for molecular diagnostic tests are so low that they put patient access in jeopardy, declared a new lab industry coalition in a statement delivered to members of Congress. Called the Coalition to Strengthen the Future of Molecular Diagnosti…
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Volume XXXII, No. 6 – April 21, 2025
Now that a federal judge has vacated the FDA’s LDT rule, The Dark Report analyzes the judgement and notes the various steps the FDA could take in response. Also, lab testing at pharmacies is proving to be less successful than was once anticipated.
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