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January 3, 2023, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX, No. 1 – January 3, 2023 Issue
At the moment, it appears that the controversial Verifying Accurate Leading-edge IVCT Development (VALID) Act will have a hard time passing in Congress. The bill, which is intended to shift regulation of laboratory-developed tests (LDTs) to the federal Food and Drug Administration…
2022’s Top 10 Lab Stories Confirm Challenging Times
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXIX, No. 17 – December 12, 2022 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: There are valuable insights to be gleaned from The Dark Report’s “Top 10 Lab Industry Stories for 2022.” Several of this year’s story picks involve external forces reshaping healthcare in the United States in profound ways. Other story picks for 2022 illustrate …
October 10, 2022 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 14 – October 10, 2022 Issue
Future regulation of laboratory-developed tests (LDTs) may not be as clear as it once appeared. On Sept. 30, Congress passed a short-term resolution to keep the federal government funded. As part of the move, a proposed bill to increase oversight of LDTs has been sidelined, at least for now, accordin…
Might LDT Regulation Bill Support Be Waning in Congress?
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 10 – July 18, 2022 Issue
This is an excerpt of an 833-word article in the July 18, 2022 issue of THE DARK REPORT. The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. …
Important Court Rulings & Pending New Federal Law
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXIX, No. 10 – July 18, 2022 Issue
IMPORTANT THINGS ARE HAPPENING WITH COURT DECISIONS AND PROPOSED FEDERAL LEGISLATION that will affect a substantial number of the nation’s clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology groups. In this issue of The Dark Report, you’ll be alerted to those developments we th…
Might VALID Act Support Be Waning in Congress?
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 10 – July 18, 2022 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Just weeks ago, events seemed to indicate that the Verifying Accurate Lea…
Halfway Through 2022, More Changes Come at Labs
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXIX, No. 8 – June 6, 2022 Issue
APPROACHING THE MIDWAY MARK OF 2022, some clinical laboratory directors and pathologists might feel like they’ve already experienced enough changes to last the whole year. For example, since the start of 2022, we’ve seen SARS-CoV-2 testing surges co…
VALID Act vs. VITAL Act: Day of Reckoning for LDTs
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 16 – November 29, 2021 Issue
TWO DISTINCTLY DIFFERENT BILLS HAVE SURFACED IN CONGRESS, each with the potential to have substantial impact on how laboratory-developed tests (LDTs) are regulated by agencies of the federal government. One bill even creates a new acronym for the lab industry: IVCT for in vitro clinical tests….
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