2014
January 2014
3-Month “Doc Fix” Delays 24% MPFS Cut
CMS Uses Competitive Pricing Info to Slash BRCA Test Price by Half
Is Aurora Seeking a Restructuring or Not?
February 2014
Lab Lobby Spending Targets CLFS Revaluation, In-Office Labs and Regulation of LDTs
Quest Seeks Answers and $90M From Defunct Debt Collector
Labcorp 2013 Financials
March 2014
Survey Highlights Doctors’ Challenges in Ordering and Interpreting Lab Tests
New NCCI Policy Cuts Fish Test Rates by 50%
Pathology Institute 2014 Highlights
April 2014
Women’s Health Connecticut Opens Lab
CMS to Use Private Insurance Rates to Determine Part B Lab Test Reimbursement
More on Labcorp’s IBC Contract Win
May 2014
Publicly-Traded Lab CEOs Paid Average of $2.8 Million
EHR Vendors Shifting Costs to Labs
XIFIN Seeks $5 Million from PAML
June 2014
Eurofins to Buy Viracor-IBT For 3.2X Revenue
Aetna Slams Out-of-Network Labs With New Rates Set at 75% of Medicare
Qiagen and Amgen Get FDA Approval for Vectibix/KRAS Test
July 2014
Technical Rates Get a Boost in Proposed Fee Schedule for 2015
OIG Report Spotlights Lab Billing Red Flags
Digipath to Open Marijuana Testing Lab
August 2014
Proposed Hospital Outpatient Rule Seeks to Package Pathology Services
FDA to Phase in Regulation of LDTs
Labcorp Midyear Results
September 2014
DOJ Investigating Lab Payements to Doctors
CMS Driving Blind as it Pushes More Services Into Outpatient Bundles
Veracyte to Buy Allegro Diagnostics
October 2014
United Begins LBM Program in Florida, But Delays Claims Enforcement
Growing Skepticism on Digital Pathology
Flow Cytometry in CMS Crosshairs
November 2014
No Big Surprises in Final Physician Fee Schedule For 2015
CMS Finalizes Plans to Package Pathology Services For Outpatients
Labcorp Going Deep Into Debt to Fund Acquisition of Covance
December 2014
UnitedHealthcare Moving Ahead With Full Implementation of BeaconLBS
Outpatient Bundling Means Lower Volume
Palmetto Seeks to Eliminate Code Stacking For MolDX test Panels