Tuesday, October 13, 2026

Agilent to acquire Proscia; Business Strategies in Digital Pathology

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 In headline news today, Agilent (market cap $50B) will acquire Proscia in a deal for $240M in cash.   See news below. I've had a number...

The Strange World of PAMA Neuro Test Pricing

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Header.    For 24 neuro codes, most were PLA codes with no PAMA data.   For codes with PAMA data (e.g.  5,000 payments for generic ABeta 1-4...
Monday, October 12, 2026

Using Radiology Business "AI" Section to Understand Trends in 2025-2026

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 I pulled Radiology Business's own listing of 24 recent AI articles - what does it amount to?  Which way and why, are we running? ### Ye...

Rapid Changes Expected for Breast Cancer Therapies; ADCs and More

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 From Nature Med, Nat Rev Clin Oncol, and NEJM. ## These papers support a substantial opportunity for digital pathology manufacturers—but th...

Katie Palmer's Radiology Articles at STAT: An 8-Article Review and Meta-Analysis

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We previously used Chat GPT to assess a set of 5 "AI Reimbursement" articles from Katie Palmer at Stat Plus.  Here, we expand the ...

Part 2 of 2: AI Is Amazed by the Novitas-FCSO "MAC LAB DOS" Educational Article

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In Part 1 , we learned that CMS had asked MACs to  produce a composite standard article that educates on the bizarre Lab Date of Service Rul...

Part 1 of 2: MAC DOS Article: Two AIs Compete to Do Better (Than MACs)

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Part 1 of 2:  The MAC DOS Article: Two AIs Compete to Do Better (Than MACs) After hearing complaints that the Lab DOS rule should have unifo...

PAMA and Codes for Exome, Genome, and "Rapid Genome"

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  PAMA 2027: Genome Prices Fall Below Exome—and Rapid Genome Codes Have Missing Data CMS’s preliminary PAMA results point toward a notable r...

Mammography AI Sold Straight to Consumers! (Parallels in Labs?)

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Everywell will be the agent for seeling Clairity Breast mammography software results to consumers, according to a press release.    In the f...

PAMA and PAP Smears: Strange Goings-On

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PAMA 2027: When More Cytology Work Brings Less Payment Article by : Chat GPT CMS’s preliminary laboratory pricing data for 2027 offer an une...
Saturday, October 10, 2026

Sepsis: ARPA Grant for Treatable Subtypes; Review

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ARPA-H Backs a Precision-Immunology Platform for the ICU An award of up to $41.4 million will support a Stanford-led effort to measure chang...
Friday, October 9, 2026

The Stark Law and Pathologist-Owned Labs...and IHC Orders

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We all know that the Stark law prohibits doctors from referring lab tests to labs they have an ownership in.   How about the daily occurence...

AI Reviews: Three-Day Value Based Cancer Care Conference (VBCC), NYT October 2026

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  AVBCC 2026 and the work of making cancer care deliver value The 2026 summit of the Association for Value-Based Cancer Care , scheduled for...