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OPKO Settles Allegations of Fraudulent Billing
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 6 – April 21, 2025 Issue
DEMONSTRATING THAT EVEN ROUTINE TESTS CAN CAUSE LEGAL HEADACHES for clinical laboratories, the U.S….
April 21, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 6 – April 21, 2025 Issue
The administration of President Donald Trump is calling for a $40 billion cut in funding to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), according to a report in The Washington Post on April 16. This amount would come from HHS discretionary spending,…
Change Healthcare Cyberattack Involved 100 Million Americans
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI No. 15 – November 4, 2024 Issue
AFTER EXPERIENCING WHAT MANY CYBERSECURITY EXPERTS consider to be one of the largest, most disruptive ransomware attacks ev…
How Is COVID-19 Evolving? It’s Not Like Flu or Colds
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 11 – August 12, 2024 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: It’s been 53 months since the SARS-CoV-2 virus triggered the worst global pandemic since 1918’s influenza pandemic. The coronavirus continues to surprise public health officials as new variants are detected, along with a multi-year pattern of summer surges in new cases. T…
Final Rule on AI Transparency Can Benefit Clinical Labs
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 5 – April 8, 2024 Issue
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) AND MACHINE LEARNING are becoming ubiquitous in today’s modern hospital systems and clinical laboratories. In response to these developments, federal officials issued a new rule that has major implications on how healthcare providers use artificial intelligence. T…
No Surprises Act Sparks a Slew of Court Decisions
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX, No. 13 – September 11, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Multiple lawsuits filed by the Texas Medical Association against the federal government have resulted in key decisions that affect provisions in the law. Qualifying payment amounts and …
Private Health Insurers Are Aware of Problems with CPT Code 81408
By Virchow | From the Volume XXX, No. 13 – September 11, 2023 Issue
EDITOR’S NO…
Big Employers Sue Payers over Price Transparency
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, No. 12 – August 21, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Feeling they’ve been denied access by insurance companies to price data about medical claim payments, self-funded employer plans and unions are taking their health insurance companies…
Cyberattack Victims Sue Enzo Biochem and Labcorp
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX, No. 10 – July 10, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: It’s the latest reminder that clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology groups are at risk for two threats. One threat is a cyberattack that shuts down a lab’s IT system while stealing patient data. The other threat involves lawsui…
Proposed Electronic Signature Rule Has Compliance Risks
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX, No. 9 – June 19, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Proposed HHS rule aims to define and standardize physician electronic signatures. For clinical laboratories, this is important because lab test claims require a signed requisition form. Given …
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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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