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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
  
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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
  
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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
  
• LABORATORY BRIEFS:
  
• ELINCS Specifications Released in California
  
• TriCore Earns Multi-Site CAP 15189 Accreditation
  
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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
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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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
  
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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?
  
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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
  
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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
  
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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
  
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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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• R. Lewis Dark: Any Future for Loss-Leader Lab Pricing?
  
• Discounted Lab Prices Become Issue in California
  
• Medi-Cal Gets Tough on Low Lab Test Prices
  
• Who Wins and Who Loses With 51501 Enforcement
  
• How Could So Many Labs Violate California Law?
  
• Calif. Officials Back Off From Suspending Labs
  
• Did Qui Tam Suit Trigger Medi-Cal Price Concerns?
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Reading the Tea Leaves from 2010's Events
  
• Our Top Ten Lab Stories Highlight Major Changes
  
• Passage of Health Reform Bill Sets U.S. Healthcare on Uncertain Course
  Gauging the Prospects For Anatomic Pathology
  480,000 Physicians Poised to Adopt EMR Systems Starting Next Year
  Beth Israel Pathology Opens Door ToWhole Human Genome Sequencing
  ISO 15189Makes Further Progress Among U.S. Clinical Laboratories
  Digital Pathology Gets Respect As BioImagene Sells for $100 Million
  GE's $587 Million Purchase of Clarient Is Big Boost for Anatomic Pathology
  PAML's New Hospital Outreach JVs Reflect More Interest in Lab Testing
  FDA Takes First Steps to Regulate Laboratory-Developed Tests (LDTs)
  Anatomic Pathology Groups Tap Private Equity Funds for Capital
  Federal Court Ruling AgainstMyriad May Change Gene Patent Protection
  
• FTC Opposes LabCorp's Acquisition of Westcliff
  
• Time for Labs to Use Web To Recruit Med Techs
  
• 10 Strategies to Boost Med Tech Recruiting
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Tapping Molecular Pathology’s New Gold Mine
  
• Sonic Makes Big Play In AP With CBL Path Buy
  
• Gauging the Prospects For Anatomic Pathology
  
• GE Pulls Plug on Its LIS, No Support after July 2013
  
• IVD Market Update: Several Laboratory Companies On Road to Public Stock Offering
  
• Whole Genome Sequencing: Is It Ready for Prime Time?
  
• Aetna Sues LabCorp Over Lab Marketing Practices
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Clinical Labs and Whole Human Gene Sequencing
  
• "Primary-Care Pathology" One Goal at Beth Israel
  
• The Dark Index: Q3 Earnings Are Mixed Bag For the Two Blood Brothers
  
• Growing Role for Digital Image Analysis in Pathology
  
• Lab Informatics: Spate of Lab Informatics Deals Signals Greater Investor Interest
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Early Warning on LDTs and Pre-Authorization
  
• Lab Industry Unprepared For FDA Action on LDTs
  
• Many Questions About FDA Regulation of LDTs
  
• Lab Market Update: Hospital-Owned Medical Groups Serving More Patients Per Doc
  
• Systems Approach For Pre-Authorization Of Genetic Tests
  
• Quality Strategy Earns Honor for SD Laboratory
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Labs Can Turn the Tables on the Payer
  
• Two New Lab Companies Will Open in L.A. & Denver
  
• More Hospitals Consider PAML's Lab JV Model
  
• Industry Update: Lab Manager Training Program Coming to Four Cities This Fall
  
• LAB BRIEFS: BOSTON INVESTORS PURCHASE INTEREST IN DR LAL PATHLABS, U.S. SPENDS $55.6 BILLION BECAUSE OF MEDICAL MALPRACTICE, MED LAB WORKERS STRIKING IN NEW ZEALAND
  
• LIS UPDATE: Epic Launches LIS Software To Fill Out Ancillary Offerings
  
• Payers Move to Pre-Authorize Expensive Genetic Tests
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Tough Financial Times Ahead for Hospital Labs
  
• Labs Hope to Renegotiate 1.75% Medicare Fee Cuts
  
• Pathology Records Found At Massachusetts Dump
  
• Industry Update: Lab Manager Training Program Coming to Four Cities This Fall
  
• More Hospitals Now Use Point-of-Care Test Devices
  
• HIEs Boost Fortunes of Community Hospital Labs
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Steps Toward the Globalization of Lab Medicine
  
• New "Meaningful Use" Rules Are Easier on Docs
  
• Guest Opinion: Lab Industry Would Be Smart To Issue EMR Report Card
  
• Actions of Ex-Employees Can Breach Lab Security
  
• Dark Index: Specimen Volume Declines Reported By Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp
  
• Lab Law Updates: AAB's Suit Prevails over NY State Following 11 Years of Litigation
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Lessons In Lab Testing From Irelande
  
• In South Carolina, TC/PC May Be "Misconduct"
  
• SC Pathologists Question Legality of TC/PC in State
  
• New Criticisms in Ireland About Cervical Screening
  
• Patient Privacy Laws Create Legal Risk for Labs
  
• Better Blood Utilization Reduces Costs by 29%
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Texas Doctors Dropping Out of Medicare
  
• ISO 15189 Accreditation Earned by Spectra Labs
  
• Genetic Testing Genie Is Now Out of the Bottle
  
• Medicare Update: Pathologists Not Enrolled In PECOS By July 6 Risk Denial of Medicare Claims
  
• Using Performance-Based Part A Hospital Path Contracts
  
• LAB MERGERS: Halfpenny Technologies Buys Laboratory Management Services
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: California's Legal Challenge to Discount Pricing
  
• Westcliff Labs Announces BK and Sale to LabCorp
  
• AG Jerry Brown Settles With Westcliff Med Labs
  
• Did Wrong Strategy Sink Westcliff Medical Labs?
  
• Taming the Blood Beast With Better Utilization
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Irish Labs Are at an Important Crossroads
  
• Optimism & Opportunity at Executive War College
  
• Sonic Health Wins Irish Contract for Pap Testing
  
• Pathologists Can Still Earn Medicare PQRI Incentives
  
• French Company Buys Pittsburgh-Based RedPath
  
• Letter to Editor on EMR Donations, Deeply-Discounted Client Prices
  
• EMR Donations, Client Bill Issues in Anatomic Path
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Is Lab Industry Ready for Facebook and MySpace?
  
• Social Networking Is New Laboratory Marketing Channel
  
• Pre-authorization Coming For Pricey Molecular Tests
  
• ISO 15189 Accreditation Requires Specific Steps For Global Recognition
  
• Competitive Bidding Update: Two Years Later, CMS Still Holds Labs' Competitive Bid Documents
  
• LAB QUALITY: Errors in Surgical Pathology Surface in the United Kingdom
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: For Better or for Worse: Nation Has New Health Law
  
• 2.3% Medical Device Tax Hits Clinical Labs in 2013
  
• Business Advantages From Whole Slide Imaging
  
• Use of Point-of-Care Testing Reduces Mortality by 50%
  
• Serious Problems Plague Newfoundland Laboratory
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Oncologists Cut Into Pathologists' Revenue Pie
  
• Baylor Pathologists Form Lab with US Oncology
  
• Two New Pathology Models Will Soon Be Tried in Dallas
  
• Multispectral Tests Use "Smart" Systems To Analyze Tissue
  
• Preparing for New Lab Role In Personalized Medicine
  
• DARK INDEX: Assessing the Year-End Financials For Nation's Biggest Lab Companies
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: New Cycle Begins for Lab and Pathology Acquisitions
  
• Pace of Lab Acquisitions Increased during 2009
  
• Predict 2010 To Be Busy For Lab Owners & Buyers
  
• Multispectral Tests Use "Smart" Systems To Analyze Tissue
  
• LAB BRIEFS: BECKMAN COULTER REPORTS EARNINGS THAT INCLUDE OLYMPUS ANTHEM CRITICIZED AFTER RAISING PREMIUMS BY 39% IN CALIFORNIA
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Anatomic Pathology's Likely Path of Transformation
  
• Ireland Is Restructuring National Lab Test System
  
• Predict 60,000 Doctors To Adopt EMRs Each Year
  
• Two Big Pathology Groups Tap Investors for Capital
  
• Pathology Inc. Sells Equity to Raise Capital
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Lab Medicine's Potential Versus Its Challenges
  
• New Clinical Lab Trends To Shape Events in 2010
  
• LAB INDUSTRY MACRO TREND FOR CLINICAL LABORATORIES
  
No 1: Quality Management Systems Now an Option for Clinical Laboratories
No 2: More Labs Use Lean Six Sigma To Improve TAT, Performance
No 3: Work Flow and Work Processes Become a Management Driver
No 4: Automation Serves Lab Goals To Improve TAT, Quality, Service
No 5: Automation Is New Option In Micro, Histology, Molecular
No 6: Hospital Lab Outreach Programs Become Service-Rich Offerings
No 7: As Docs Adopt EMRs, Labs Offer E-Prescribing, Imaging Orders
No 8: EMR Funding Incentives Open Door to New Compliance Issues
No 9: Middleware Comes into Its Own And Gives Labs Extra Function
No 10: SaaS and Cloud Computing Gaining Acceptance by Laboratories

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