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NorDx Lab Started COVID Preparation in 2019
December 7th, 2020
This is an excerpt of a 2,995-word article in the December 7, 2020 issue of THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: In a remarkable example of prescience, informed by decades-long experience in clinical lab testin...
Medicare COVID Test Payments to Be Cut Starting Jan. 1
October 26th, 2020
This is an excerpt of a 1,9842-word article in the October 26, 2020 issue of THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: Starting Jan. 1, CMS will lower the Medicare COVID test payment to $75 when labs with “high-throughp...
DOJ Delivers $6B Lab Fraud Crackdown
October 8th, 2020
This is an excerpt of a 1,028-word article in the October 5, 2020 issue of THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: In this latest lab fraud crackdown, Department of Justice cases involving clinical labs or molecular te...
Will HHS Ruling on COVID-19 LDTs Be Good or Bad for Lab Reimbursement?
September 14th, 2020
This is an excerpt of a 1,028-word article in the September 14, 2020 issue of THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. WHILE SOME LABS CELEBRATE THE PERCEIVED FLEXIBILITY that comes from not having to get an ...
FDA Will Have No Authority Over Laboratory-Developed Tests, HHS Says
August 24th, 2020
This is an excerpt of a 2,029-word article in the August 24, 2020 issue of THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: A directive from the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) may have long-lasting implic...
Amazon Targets COVID-19 Testing in its New Lab-Building Venture
August 3rd, 2020
This is an excerpt of a 1,980-word article in the August 3, 2020 issue of THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: For pathologists and clinical lab directors, Amazon’s nascent COVID-19 t...
Is COVID-19 Pooled Testing Good for Labs, Bad for IVDs?
July 13th, 2020
This is an excerpt of a 1,420-word article in the July 13, 2020 issue of THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: Pooled testing for COVID-19 could be a double-edged sword for clinical labs and in vitro diagnos...
FDA Says 8 of 11 Tests Fail in Serology Test Review
June 22nd, 2020
This is an excerpt of a 1,970-word article in the June 22, 2020 issue of THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: After introducing some 200 serological assays onto the market in March and April with little or no review,...
COVID-19 Pandemic Erodes Cash Flow at Clinical Labs
June 1st, 2020
This is an excerpt of a 1,209-word article in the June 1, 2020 issue of THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: Every day, national news headlines scream about the shortage of SARS-CoV-2 lab tests needed to man...
California Research Team Analyzes Performance of 12 Serological Tests
May 11th, 2020
This is an excerpt of a 2.241-word article in the May 11, 2020 issue of THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: Researchers with the COVID-19 Testing Project used a multidisciplinary effort to analyze and compa...
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