2018
January 2018
Judge’s Decision On ACLA Lawsuit May Come as Soon as Mid-February
Lab Execs Share Outlook For 2018
At JPM Conference: Trump Tax Softens Blow of PAMA Rate Cuts For Big Public Lab Companies
February 2018
Lab Bracing For Private-Payer Rate Cuts
ACLA Files For Summary Judgement, But Judge’s Decision Unlikely Until Spring
Bio-Reference Laboratories Seeking New President
March 2018
CMS Gets 1-Week Delay to File Response to ACLA Lawsuit
Nasty Noncompete Fight At Bako Diagnostics
A Closer Look At LE’s Private Payer Outlook Survey
April 2018
HHS Says Its New CLFS Rates Can’t Be Challenged
Medicaid Rate Reductions Compound Medicare CLFS Cuts In Ohio and Missuori
Aurora Diagnostics to Buys Cascade Pathology
May 2018
New Judge Assigned To ACLA Lawsuit
Public Lab CEOs Paid Average $4.5 Million
CellMax Ready To Launch “Liquid Biopsy” For Colorectal Cancer
June 2018
Judge Denies ACLA’s Request For Speedy Scheduling As PAMA Lawsuit Drags On
Quest Back In-Network With UnitedHealthcare; LabCorp Back In-Network With Aetna
Lab Stocks Up 21% Year to Date
July 2018
CMS Is Considering Including Hospital Outreach Labs In Next PAMA Data Collection
Technical Rates for Most Pathology Services To Get Boost Under Medicare Proposed Fees For 2019
Quest’s AmerPath Sues Two Dermpaths For Alleged Violations Of Non-Compete Agreements
August 2018
Sonic Forms Joint Venture With ProMedica In Ohio
OIG Points To Monetary Penalties To Encourage More Labs To Report PAMA Data
Bako Diagnostics Sues To Stop Former Dermpath Execs From Starting Competing Laboratory
September 2018
ACLA Seeks More PAMA Reporting Labs And Enforcement Action Against Labs Failing To Report
SEC Charges OPKO Chairman With Stock Fraud
Guardant Health Seeks $100 Million From IPO
October 2018
Judge Dismisses ACLA PAMA Lawsuit
“Keep Us Out!” Says American Hospital Association
Molecular Diagnostic Test Claim Denials Still Hover Near 50%
November 2018
Most Pathology Services Will See Small Rate Cuts Under Final MPFS For 2019
CMS Says Hospital Outreach Labs Must Report PAMA Pricing Data
ACLA To Appeal Lawsuit Dismissal
December 2018
Sonic Buying Aurora Diagnostics For $540 Million
Hospital Outreach Labs Face Daunting Task Of Reporting Private-Payer Rates To CMS
IU Health’s Joe Meyer