Tuesday, December 23, 2025

"AI, Please Find Me 10 Important Genomics Headlines from the Past Month"

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Header:  What do you get if you ask AI for "Ten Important Genomics Headlines from the Past Month?" While I was grocery shopping, i...
Sunday, December 21, 2025

Two Fascinating AI Tasks: (1) Windows Software Repair; (2) A New Viewpoint on Point of Care Testing

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 I had two unusually interesting experiences with AI at Work this week.  In one, Chat GPT diagnosed a quite arcane computer software problem...

Brief Blog: CMS Unleashes Major Drug Pricing Proposals

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 If you want to bury something, CMS says release it on Friday night.   If you really want to bury it, use the Friday night before Christmas ...

Brief Blog: CMS Updates Price Transparency

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Header: CMS is arguing for important updates to its Price Transparency rules . See: News at Fierce Healthcare here . CMS press release here ...
Friday, December 19, 2025

AMA Posts Agenda for Palm Springs AMA CPT Meeting (Feb 5-7, 2026)

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Header: AMA has posted the complete agenda for the February 5-7, 2026, AMA CPT editorial meeting in Palm Springs. Note that pathology/labora...

More Big News: HHS Request for Information - Artificial Intelligence Reimbursement!

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Header:  HHS Issues Important New RFI on AI Reimbursement - Connections to Digital Pathology. It's been a big several weeks for news re...
Wednesday, December 17, 2025

A Little More About WISeR: Medicare's Rapidly-Arriving Pre-Authorization by AI

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  WISeR   is the recently-announced, rapidly-arriving demo program for AI-Prior Auth in Medicare Part B. None of the target services are lab...

Rakha et al. 2026: New International Consensus Criteria for HER2 Low & Ultralow

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For several years, there's been steady news about using drugs or combinations in ultra-low Her2 categories.   See a new concensus articl...
Tuesday, December 16, 2025

MolDx on the Podcast Circuit: Gabriel Bien-Willner @ DIASORIN

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The DIASORIN Podcast, "Beyond the Result," brings us an interview with Dr Gabriel Bien-Willner.  It's titled, "The Payer ...

MedPAC 2024: How Medicare Thinks About AI Reimbursement

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We have more and more emphasis in genomics on AI and bioinformatics, so the way CMS thinks about software is relevant. A current article by...

From ESMO: Requirements for AI-based Biomarkers in Oncology

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 At Linked In, Josie Hayes flagged an important consensus new article from European Society of Medical Oncology.   Her note is here .   Hay...

Pierre Arsene: LBX Stocks Raise $50B in Market Cap This Year

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I haven't tried to replicate the math, but at Linked In, Pierre Arsene repors that liquid biopsy stocks generated $50B in market cap thi...
Sunday, December 14, 2025

Unprecedented; SENATE Wants to Hear Your Coding - Innovation Problems

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Update.  Senator Cassidy has exchanged letters (and press releases) with the AMA on a number of coding topics, RUC, CPT membership, etc.  I ...
Saturday, December 13, 2025

Scott Gottlieb in JAMA: AI Can Solve Productivity Challenges

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 I enjoyed this article alot, and it's very germane to current hot topics at CMS (and AMA).   Here's an AI picture, an AI summary, a...

What the Hell is MAHA ELEVATE?

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You've tried to at least recognize what the new programs ACCESS and TEMPO mean (at CMS and FDA, respectively, but they interact...) Her...