2012
January 2012
How to Build a $600 Pap Test
Physician Pay Cut Delayed For 2 Months
Quest Diagnostics Buys S.E.D. Medical Labs
February 2012
Medicare Lab Fee Schedule to be Cut by Another 2%
Michigan Sues Quest Diagnostics to Recover Millions From Alleged Medicaid Fraud
Texas Judge Awards $700k to Ex-AmeriPath Pathologist
March 2012
Payers Target $300 Lab Tests; Big Pharma Prices New Cancer Drugs at $100k
Tampa Pathology Lab Settles Alleged TC/PC Medicare Fraud Case
PathGroup buys Atlanta Dermatopathology
April 2012
Aetna Will Require CAP Accreditation for In-Office Pathology Labs
Study Shows In-Office Labs Bill More/Find Less
Georgia Court Rules In Favor of Former AmeriPath Pathologist
May 2012
Warburg Pincus to Invest Up to $250M in New Lab Outreach Company
Publicly-Traded Lab CEOs Paid Average of $3.5 Million
Aetna Relaxes Accreditation Rules For Derms
June 2012
Health Plans Squeezing Out Independent Labs
How Much is Your Lab Worth?
Labcorp to Buy Medtox For $245 Million
Aurora Diagnostics Cancels IPO Plans
July 2012
How Long Before Digital Path Goes Mainstream?
Who Will Benefit From Obamacare?
No New Regs For In-Office Labs Proposed For 2013
August 2012
Incyte and Eastside Pathology to Merge
Labcorp Shoots Down Takeover Rumors
Labs brace For CMS Decision on Molecular Tests
September 2012
Palmetto Slashes Prostate Biopsy Fees
CMS Turns to Part B Carriers to Gap-Fill Payment For New Molecular Tests
Big Texas Oncology Group Opens Pathology Laboratory
October 2012
Market Pressures Led UMASS to Sell Outreach Lab to Quest Diagnostics
Palmetto Denying Coverage For Most MolDX Tests
How Much Does it Really Cost to Make a Slide?
November 2012
Medicare Slashes CPT 88305-TC by 52%
Hospital Pathologists React to the Rate Cut
Will In-Office Pathology Labs Survive?
December 2012
Pee Dee Pathology and Labcorp Form Novel Partnership
PAML Buys Stake in Cellnetix
Quest Diagnostics CEO Outlines Plans to Turn Around AmeriPath