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• R. Lewis Dark: Unpaid for Molecular Tests, Some Labs Are Closing
  
• Executive War College Sessions Center upon Three Trends
  
• Dartmouth Builds New Lab To Serve Growth in Testing
  
• Mass Spec, Collaboration Produce Dramatic Results
  
• Standard Bar Code Labels Can Reduce Laboratory Errors
  
• Labs Should Prepare for Larger Patient Deductibles
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Reimbursement System Fails Labs and Patients
  
• Payers Bollix MDx Codes, Labs Unpaid for Months
  
• Laboratory One Lab's Revenue Loss Due to CMS' Slow Process
  
• How CMS 'Mismanaged' Pricing of Molecular Tests
  
• Letter to the Editor: Medicare Taken To Task about Molecular Test Pricing Method
  
• INTERVIEW: Palmetto: 'We Are Processing & Paying Clean Claims Without Undue Delay'
  
• Experts Say Labs May Start to Receive MDx Payments
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Predicting the End of Fee-for-Service Medicine
  
• Urologists Weigh In on Prostate Biopsy Testing
  
• Payer Update: Palmetto's Prostate Biopsy Policy Removed after Talks with CMS
  
• Two MTs Launch New Lab In Aberdeen, North Carolina
  
• Dark Index: LipoScience Completes IPO, Raises $44.9 Million from Sale
  
• Leveraging Testing Technology To Identify MRSA, C. Difficile
  
• EHR Donation Ruling in WA Raises Questions for Labs
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Road Map to Most Pressing Trends In Healthcare
  
• Low 2013 Molecular Rates May Bankrupt Some Labs
  
• ACO Numbers Increase, Now Cover 10% of Nation
  
• Lawyers Share Insights About ACO Contracting
  
• Manhattan Labs Gets Infusion of Equity Cash
  
• Intermountain Seeks Shared Accountability
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Delivering Added Value = More Lab Reimbursement
  
• Boosting the Medical Laboratory's Role In Collaborative Care
  
• Lab Lowers CHF Readmits, Cuts LOS for AMI Patients
  
• HIPAA Update: Four Labs and Billing Company Pay $140,000 Fine in HIPAA Case
  
• Pathology Labs Want Method To Correct Specimen ID Errors
  
• Anticipating 2013 Trends In Clinical Laboratory and Pathology
  
• Dark Index: Quest Diagnostics Incorporated Sells OralDNA, HemoCue To Clear Its Decks for 2013
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Finding Lab Growth Opportunities Amid the Gloom
  
• 2012's Top Ten Lab Stories Predict More Challenges
  
• Price Cuts, Long Delays in Payment Are Expected
  
• Ascend Clinical Acquires PathCentral Lab Business
  
• Preserving Competition Is Goal of California Lawsuit
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: PAML, Pathology and New Opportunities
  
• Four California Labs Sue Quest and Three Insurers
  
• RDX Alters Business Plan Due to Lab Market Changes
  
• New Business Helps Reduce Pathology Specimen ID Errors
  
• Pathologists Benefit from Hospital Lab Consulting
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Of 88305-TC and Other Bad News for Pathology Labs
  
• First-Mover Labs Reveal Success with Lean & QMS
  
• OURLab Founder Lays Out New Business Strategy
  
• Lab Market Update: BRLI's Spanish-Language Lab To Serve Hispanic Americans
  
• Memorial Hermann's Health Info Exchange Helps Lab Outreach
  
• More Medicare Auditors Are Targeting Clinical Labs
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: IOM Endorses Continuous Improvement, Lean
  
• Process Improvement Coming to Healthcare
  
• More IVD Consolidation As Danaher Acquires Iris
  
• CDC Surveys Doctors Use of Laboratory Test Results
  
• Unprecedented Growth Rates for Molecular Testing
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: In Medicare Bull's Eye: Lab Test Reimbursement
  
• Labs Have Questions about Prostate Biopsy Policy
  
• Changed Medicare Policy Adds to Regulatory Risk
  
• Lawyer Advises on Risk Of Prostate Biopsy Audits
  
• Lab Compliance Update: CLMA Asks Labs for Examples of RAC Auditor Overreach
  
• Competitive Bidding: Once Again, It's Back!
  
• DARK INDEX: Sonic Healthcare, Bio-Reference Report Financial Performance
  
• Lab Specimen Transport Eliminates Need for Ice
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Damon Laboratories, Mitt Romney, and Politics
  
• Prostate Biopsy Claims Affected by Policy Change
  
• Root Cause Analysis Used To Find Source of Errors
  
• Dark Index: Narrower Provider Networks Topic during Quest Conference
  
• Pathologists in China and U.S. Linked By Digital Pathology Arrangement
  
• Lab Briefs: LEICA BIOSYSTEMS TO ACQUIRE APERIO
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Time for Congress to Properly Fix CLIA PT Issue
  
• CLIA PT Enforcement Ensnares Top Labs
  
• CMS Proposes Sanctions Against OSU Laboratory
  
• Existing CLIA Language Drives PT Enforcement
  
• CMS and CAP Comment On CLIA PT Matters
  
• Lawyer Questions CMS Over Inadvertent PT Errors
  
• Congress May Respond to Tough CLIA PT Penalties
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Employers, Payers Are Challenging ‘High’ Test Prices
  
• New BlueCard Policies Affect Lab Test Claims
  
• Blue Cross Execs Discuss Reasons for New Policies
  
• Digital Pathology Enables UCLA–China Lab Connection
  
• Lab Site Visits in New Zealand Show Impact of Laboratory Contracting
  
• Florida Law Better Defines Laboratory Marketing Violations
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Hospital and Health System Labs Brace for Change
  
• Well-Funded Buyers Put Hospital Labs in Bull’s-Eye
  
• aLabs Now Manages Labs For Major Health Systems
  
• New Lab Company Intends To Buy Outreach Labs
  
• Indiana Clinical Lab Taps Data To Improve Service to Doctors
  
• Pathologists Can Offer ‘Companion Informatics’
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Healthcare Reform Puts Local Labs at Risk
  
• Cleveland Clinic Laboratory Aims To Grow Reference Testing
  
• HIPAA UPDATE: Sonic Healthcare Acquires Labs from Aussie Competitor
  
• In Florida, New Law Bans Certain Lab Sales Practices
  
• HIPAA UPDATE: Patient Service Center Theft Highlights Labs’ Need to Protect Paper Records
  
• Health Insurers Now Finding Ways to Cut Costs and Shed Risks
  
• World Lab Watch: Lab Restructuring Moves Ahead In United Kingdom and Ireland
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: CLIA's Catch-22 Involving Proficiency Testing
  
• Executive War College Looks At Threats to Lab Industry
  
• Inadvertent PT “Errors” Trigger CLIA Sanctions
  
• Sarasota Hospital Lab Reduces Number of Hemolyzed Specimens
  
• HIPAA UPDATE: Patient Service Center Theft Highlights Labs’ Need to Protect Paper Records
  
• Magnets to Move Tubes On ARUP’s Testing Line
  
• LAB BRIEFS: VA LAB WORKER DIES OF INFECTION
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Lab Strategies for Population Health Management
  
• MD Self-Referral Issues Target of Utilization Study
  
• Hospitals Get Bad News Re: TC Grandfather Expire
  
• Form 5010 Updates: Medicare Extends 5010 Implementation For a Second Time, Effective July 1, 2012
  
• Top 10 IT Trends s Send Message for Labs and Pathology Groups
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Securing Your Lab's Success as Healthcare Reforms
  
• Hospital Labs Feel More Pressure to Lower Prices
  
• Trend in New Hampshire Is to Engage Lab Patients
  
• Critical Access Hospitals Losing Lab Test Work
  
• Ohio Lab Offers Lessons Learned from CAP 15189
  
• LAB BRIEFS: LIFELABS QUEBEC TO BE ACQUIRED BY GAMMA-DYNACARE
  
• Exome Sequencing Next “Big Thing” for Diagnosis
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Hospital's Closing Is a Lab Industry Opportunity
  
• Today's Lab Test Model Won’t Survive Reforms
  
• NYSDOH Shuts Hospital Lab In Queens, New York
  
• QMS Helps Ontario Labs Cut Errors, Improve TAT
  
• Dark Index: Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp Report Q-4, Full Year Earnings
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Another Whistleblower Lawsuit: Why Care?
  
• 'Pull Through' Is Key Issue In Lab Whistleblower Suit
  
• Former Lab CEO Explains Why He Filed Lawsuit
  
• Lab Informatics Update: HIMSS Says 46% of Hospitals Are at Stage 3 EMR Usage
  
• NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW PART 2: Successfull Laboratory Networks Need Support of Hospital Leadership (Jack Shaw of JVHL and Stu Adelman of PACLAB)
  
• LABORATORY BRIEFS: MedTox Scientific, Apollo Pacs, Cleveland Clinic, Genome Sequencing in Norway
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Pick Your Medicine: Personalized or Precision?
  
• Form 5010 Changeover Causing Payment Delays
  
• Big Medi-Cal Settlement Sets Stage For More Qui Tam Lab Test Price Suits
  
• Roche Offers $5.7 Billion To Acquire Illumina Inc.
  
• Genetic Testing Update- Personalized Medicine: Meet Pathologists' New Competitors
  
• NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW: From Modest Beginnings, Two Laboratory Networks Find Success (Jack Shaw of JVHL and Stu Adelman of PACLAB)
  
• GHSU Graduates Med Techs Using Distance Training
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Integration of Clinical Care and the Lab Industry
  
• 2011's Top 10 Lab Stories Point to a Busy 2012
  
• Big Medi-Cal Settlement Sets Stage For More Qui Tam Lab Test Price Suits
  
• First Payers Poised to Reform/Change Code Stacking for Molecular Claims
  
• Several Corporate Giants Buy Their First Stakes in Lab Test Marketplace
  
• Medicare and Private Payers Ready To Implement Value-Based Payment
  
• First Wave of Lab Professionals Retires As Oldest Baby Boomers Turn 65
  
• Mobile Computing Poised to Find Wide Acceptance Within Healthcare
  
• Internet-Based Lab Test Companies Grow by Serving Price-Shopping Patients
  
• Welcome to ACOs and Medical Homes: Goal Is to Integrate Clinical Care
  
• Federal and State Budget Battles Are a Sign of Unprecedented Fiscal Stress
  
• First Year of EMR ‘Meaningful Use’ Ends for Hospitals and Physicians
  
• ‘Salary Power’ Helps Lab Recruit and Train New MTs
  
• 9 Pennsylvania Hospitals Tackle Lab Specimen Errors
  
• Final Three Labs Settle California Qui Tam Case
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Why Capitate Genetic and Molecular Test Prices?
  
• ACLA Has Its Say Regarding Molecular Dx Proposals
  
• LabCorp's BeaconLBS Aims To Manage Genetic Tests
  
• Market Update: Allina Opens State-of-the-Art Central Laboratory Facility
  
• News Maker Interview Part Two: Dirk G. Soenksen
  
• Spectra Lab in Milpitas Accredits to ISO 15189
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Molecular Code Stacks Now in the Payers' Bull's Eye
  
• Palmetto Execs Explain Molecular Test Policies
  
• Palmetto GBA Announces Molecular Test Registry
  
• Rite Aid Offers Free Tests To Preferred Customers
  
• Book Review: New Lab Management Resource For Pathologists, Lab Leaders
  
• Anatomic Path Insourcing Expected to Be Ongoing
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Economics of Lab Testing to Be Challenged
  
• Medicare Carrier Plans to Reject Molecular Claims
  
• Clin Lab Partners' Strategy Is to Leverage Lab Data
  
• IVD UPDATE: Abbott Says It Will Split Into Two Firms in 2012
  
• At Kaiser Permanente, Real-Tim e Lab Results Are a Hit with Patients
  
• Lab Testing, Pathology Is Fast-Growing in China
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Forcast, Tough Fee Cuts Are in Labs' Future
  
• Deep Cuts in Lab Test Fees Reinstituting
  
• Lab Compliance Watch: In-Practice Histology Lab Splits Biopsies; ID's Patient with DNA Hospital
  
• Lab Uses HIE To Win Outreach Clients
  
• LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Why Pathologists Benefit From Growth of In-Office Path Labs
  
• Are Prosecutors Afraid of Big and Little Lab Firms?
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Does Anyone Know the Law in California?
  
• LabCorp Inks Agreement In Medi-Cal Pricing Case
  
• LEGAL UPDATE: National Group Names Riedel "Whistleblower of the Year"
  
• POC Testing Plays Role In Penna. Patient's Death
  
• Using Accurate Data To Grow Lab Outreach
  
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• ELINCS Specifications Released in California
  
• TriCore Earns Multi-Site CAP 15189 Accreditation
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Healthcare Reform and Laboratory Testing
  
• How In-Clinic Path Lab Benefits GI Practice
  
• AP Labs in Doc's Clinics Now an Established Fact
  
• The Dark Index: Sonic Healthcare Ltd., Reports Full Year Earnings For FY 2011
  
• NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW: How Digital Pathology Helps Pathologists Deliver Added Value
  
• MARKET STRATEGIES: Rhode Island Lab Educates Consumers about Laboratory Prices
  
• Georgia HIE Helps All Laboratories Feed Test Data to Doctors
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Consequences of Underfunding Lab Test Services
  
• Congress Again Considers Co-Insurance for Lab Tests
  
• Bostwick Laboratories Puts Facilities on Market
  
• Lab Law Updates: Myriad Wins Federal Appeal In Important Gene Patent Suit
  
• How One Pathology Group Survived Its First RAC Audit
  
• Why Canada Has Growing Shortage of Pathologists
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Tougher Financial Times Ahead for Lab Industry
  
• Why Insurers Are Buying Office-Based Physicians
  
• Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp Report Second Quarter Earnings
  
• Destructive Tornado Hits Joplin Hospital, Laboratory Rebuilds Swiftly
  
• Doctors Use Mobile Apps To View Lab Results
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Pathology Across State Lines and National Borders
  
• Will Lawsuits Re-shape Current Lab Practices?
  
• Teamsters, UCFW Sue NID, Quest In Racketeering Case
  
• Crossing State Lines With Digital Pathology
  
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• Michigan's JVHL Partners With AMA to Use LOINC
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: What Future for Deeply-Discounted Lab Prices?
  
• Will Medi-Cal Price Case Bring More Enforcement?
  
• Quest Diagnostics Settles Medi-Cal Qui Tam Case
  
• Understanding the Deal With Medi-Cal and Quest
  
• Quest Diagnostics to File Regular Reports with DHCS
  
• Medi-Cal Deal Raises Interesting Questions
  
• What Comes Next in Battle Over Discount Lab Prices?
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Raising the Bar with Better Phlebotomy Service
  
• Labs Learn About ACOs And Medical Homes
  
• Why Toronto Is Site of Global Digital Path Center
  
• WellSpans Lab Designs the "Ideal" Phlebotomy Center
  
• Obituary: Hospital Lab Operations Expert H.W. “Bud” Gandee, Jr., Dies
  
• Lab Market Update: Mid America Clinical Laboratories Discusses Recent Lab Errors
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Protecting Your Lab From New Legal Threats
  
• Key Legal, Compliance Issues for Labs Identified
  
• Lawyers Provide Insights About Top Legal Concerns
  
• False Positive STD Tests Get News Coverage in Indy
  
• Seven Deadly Sins of Lab Management Are Much Too Common
  
• Analysis of Lab Test Error Offers Lessons for Labs
  
• Office-Based Physicians Want In-Clinic Laboratories
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Re-shaping the Profession of Anatomic Pathology
  
• InCyte Pathology Buys DSM Lab in Walla Walla
  
• Smaller Pathology Groups Explore Consolidation
  
• G-Men Mistakenly Raid Pathology Lab in California
  
• Seven Deadly Sins of Lab Management Are Much Too Common
  
• Lack of Succession Plan Now Hurts Many Labs
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: A Tale of Two Laboratories
  
• Time to Think About ACOs And Medical Homes
  
• PAML to Enter Kentucky With New Laboratory JV
  
• Pathology Group Establishes Lab Test Exchange Networks
  
• Controlling Test Utilization By Physician Use of CPOE
  
• LAB M&A: Judge Rules Against FTC In Westcliff Laboratory Case
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Low Lab Test Prices and Uninsured Patients
  
• Helping Uninsured Access Affordable Lab Tests
  
• How One Akron Physician Helped Uninsured Patients
  
• Pennsylvania Lab Earns ISO 15189 Accreditation
  
• Continuing Uncertainty For California Lab Firms
  
• LAB M&A: Judge Rules Against FTC In Westcliff Laboratory Case
  
• Seeking Market Clout, Labs Form Networks
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: More IVD Consolidation as Danaher Buys Beckman
  
• $241 Million May Settle Quest Medi-Cal Claims
  
• Expect Changes in How California Labs Set Test Prices
  
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• LAB INFORMATICS: Sunquest's LIS Product First To Earn Certification from CCHIT
  
• Putting Centrifuges Into Courier Cars For Mobile Processing
  
• Using Audits to Uncover Bad Data in the Lab
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: More Reimbursement Threats for Lab Testing
  
• Paper Req Signature Rule Contradicts 2001 Actions
  
• How Labs Should Comply With New Signature Rule
  
• Lab M&A Update: Beckman Coulter and Genoptix Offer Themselves Up for Sale
  
• Pursuing More Benefits From Next Generation Lab Automation
  
• Surprises in KLAS Rating of Anatomic Path Systems
  
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