Smaller labs that serve large Medicare populations, such as skilled nursing facility labs, have cut services and expressed concerns about their survival.
The health insurer renewed its longstanding clinical lab services relationship with LabCorp and added Quest as an in-network provider of such services.
Questions posed by CMS about expanding PAMA data collection expose a rift between labs and other industry stakeholders over who should report lab prices.
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield and United Health Group join six others in FDA's Private Payor Program for providing device makers presubmission feedback.
The partners will conduct an exploratory study to determine how the results of Exagen's lupus test impacts primary care physician practice referral patterns.
The report states that using NIPD for trisomy 21 in high-risk women could "probably reduce" the total number of invasive tests though the data is incomplete.
Myriad Genetics said this week a top-five insurer has issued a positive medical policy decision for the Prolaris prostate cancer test. Myriad, through a spokesman, declined to identify the insurer.
