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Recorded March 28, 2018
Laboratory Certification and Accreditation: CAP & A2LA Discuss the Most Common Deficiencies and How Labs Should Prepare for Coming Changes
To help CLIA-certified clinical laboratories stay up-to-date with the latest developments, Dark Daily is presenting two special webinars that will give participants access to representatives from all four primary accrediting bodies with deeming authority from CMS to accredit clinical laboratories to the requirements of CLIA. This webinar, part one of the two-part series, features accreditation experts from the CAP and A2LA. Hear their organization’s list of the Top 10 Deficiencies identified during lab assessments over the past year, and how to prepare your lab!
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Dark Daily Webinar
Recorded March 14, 2018
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Newly-Available Medicare Utilization and Price Data for Pathology: Why It’s Important to your Lab and How to Use it to Boost Revenue and Pathologist Compensation
This is a must-attend session for every pathologist and practice administrator! It deals with the reality of today’s tough marketplace for pathology services and will deliver the knowledge you need to help your lab preserve revenue, enhance pathologist income, and expand market share.
- Best strategies on how other pathology practices are dealing with payer prior-authorization programs, successful navigation of payer audits, and managing narrow networks.
- An update you’ll want to hear regarding how payers are beginning to institute policies that restrict or totally deny the ability of urologists, GIs, and others to operate an anatomic pathology lab in their practice and get paid for those claims.
- Relevant policy/reimbursement/coverage changes within federal Medicare and certain state Medicaid programs that are important for you to know and respond to.
- And much more….
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Save Your Seat | 24rd Annual Executive War College
April 30-May 1, 2019
Sheraton Hotel, New Orleans, LA
The nation’s largest and most respected laboratory management event, chock-full of essential insights and a full range of laboratory leadership and operational innovations you won’t find anywhere else.
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The Path to More Revenue: Cloud-Based LIMS, Mobile Apps, and Point-of-Care Telehealth
A quality LIS vendor should define the way technology assists in maintaining a patient’s overall health and happiness, and thrive on delivering accurate results in the fastest time possible. This is so that providers, medical staff, and laboratories can improve their work processes in the delivery of patient care which are, of course, objectives which in turn provide revenue enhancements for labs. This FREE white paper can help inform your LIS decision-making.
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Molecular Information Management Systems (MIMS): Pathologists are Using MIMS To Revolutionize Personalized and Predictive Medicine
Personalized medicine and predictive medicine have become a reality. As a result, your clinical diagnostic laboratory’s need for a molecular information management system (MIMS) will become increasingly important. The Dark Report is pleased to offer this FREE White Paper, providing a detailed discussion on the whys and hows of unlocking the potential of molecular diagnostics to the benefit of your laboratory, and the contributions it can make to patient care.
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Artificial Intelligence in the Operating Room: Dutch Scientists Develop AI Application That Informs Surgical Decision Making during Cancer Surgery
Speedy DNA sequencing and on-the-spot digital imaging may change the future of anatomic pathology procedures during surgery Researchers at the Center for Molecular Medicine (CMM) at UMC Utrecht, a leading international university medical center in the Netherlands,...
Preparing for Z-Codes as DEX Genetic Testing Registry Rolls Out to Commercial Health Plans
Palmetto GBA’s Chief Medical Officer will cover how clinical laboratories billing for genetic testing should prepare for Z-Codes at the upcoming Executive War College in New Orleans After multiple delays, UnitedHealthcare (UHC) commercial plans will soon require...
Mount Sinai Researchers Create a “Smart Tweezer” That Can Isolate a Single Bacterium from a Microbiome Sample Prior to Genetic Sequencing
New technology could enable genetic scientists to identify antibiotic resistant genes and help physicians choose better treatments for genetic diseases Genomic scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City have developed...
Former FDA Director to Speak at Executive War College on FDA’s Coming Regulation of Laboratory Developed Tests
Tim Stenzel, MD, PhD, will discuss what clinical laboratories need to know about the draft LDT rule, FDA memo on assay reclassification, and ISO-13485 harmonization Many clinical laboratories anxiously await a final rule from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...
Swiss Research Study into Long COVID Promises New Diagnostic and Therapeutic Possibilities
New biomarker may lead to new clinical laboratory testing and treatments for long COVID Researchers studying long COVID at the University Hospital of Zurich (UZH) and the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), both in Switzerland, have discovered a protein biomarker...