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The Dark Report, May 6, 2013
  • 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
  • INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
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The Dark Report, April 15, 2013
  • 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
  • INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
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The Dark Report, March 4, 2013
  • 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
  • INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
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The Dark Report, February 11, 2013
  • 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
  • INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
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The Dark Report, January 22, 2013
  • 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
  • INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
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The Dark Report, December 31, 2012
  • 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
  • INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
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The Dark Report, December 10, 2012
  • 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
  • INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
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The Dark Report, November 19, 2012
  • 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
  • INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
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The Dark Report, October 8, 2012
  • 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
  • INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
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The Dark Report, September 17, 2012
  • 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
  • INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
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The Dark Report, August 27, 2012
  • 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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The Dark Report, August 6, 2012
  • 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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The Dark Report, July 16, 2012
  • 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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The Dark Report, June 25, 2012
  • 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’
  • INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
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The Dark Report, June 4, 2012
  • 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
  • INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
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The Dark Report, May 14, 2012
  • 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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The Dark Report, April 23, 2012
  • 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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The Dark Report, April 2, 2012
  • 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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The Dark Report, March 12, 2012
  • 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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The Dark Report, February 20, 2012
  • 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
  • INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
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The Dark Report, January 30, 2012
  • 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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The Dark Report, January 9, 2012
  • 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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The Dark Report, December 19, 2011
  • 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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The Dark Report, November 28, 2011
  • 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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The Dark Report, November 7, 2011
  • 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
  • INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
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The Dark Report, October 17, 2011
  • 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?
  • Lab Briefs
  • INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
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The Dark Report, September 26, 2011
  • 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
  • INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
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The Dark Report, September 6, 2011
  • 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
  • INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
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The Dark Report, August 15, 2011
  • 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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The Dark Report, July 25, 2011
  • 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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The Dark Report, July 5, 2011
  • 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
  • Laboratory Briefs:
  • Michigan's JVHL Partners With AMA to Use LOINC
  • INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
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The Dark Report, June 13, 2011
  • 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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The Dark Report, May 23, 2011
  • 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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The Dark Report, May 2, 2011
  • 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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The Dark Report, April 11, 2011
  • 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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The Dark Report, March 21, 2011
  • 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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The Dark Report, February 28, 2011
  • 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
  • INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
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The Dark Report, February 7, 2011
  • 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
  • Lab Briefs:
  • 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
  • INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
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The Dark Report, January 18, 2011
  • 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
  • INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
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