Thursday, September 3, 2026

Humor: Sorry We Have No Design Suggestions

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Sorry, We have No Design Suggestions For This Slide. (click to enlarge)

FDA is Really Doing It: Downclassify CDx based on ISH-FISH (August 2026)

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  FDA Quietly Moves Oncology ISH/FISH Companion Diagnostics From PMA to 510(k) A Biden-era deregulatory promise survives the LDT court loss ...

MolDx Issues Bonanza of New LCDs in Late August 2026

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 MolDx issues a bonanza - a triplet - of new proposed LCDs. Two provide defined coverage.  One general NGS LCD for heme malignancies,  one f...
Wednesday, September 2, 2026

MolDX MACs Delay Finalization of Prelude DCISion-RT LCD

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MolDx released a draft non coverage LCD for the DCISion-RT test last year, and it's not finalized yet. It may be a while: they've an...

OPPS Rule: Ditching Digital Pathology from CLFS and CLIA? Stakeholder Organizations Comment

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(Rapid AI Blog) This summer, in both OPPS and PFS proposed rules, CMS proposed to "nix" software-intensive lab services from the C...
Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Is Digital Pathology Close to the BIllion-Dollar Explosion in Value?

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Mini Summary: Structured pathology reporting is quietly laying the groundwork for AI-generated reports. We argue that this will transform di...
Sunday, August 30, 2026

You've Never Seen This: The CMS Digital Pathology Rule as Exciting "Harvard Case Study"

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 New from Discoveries in Health Policy (DHIP) ## This DHIP Case Study uses the Harvard Business School approach to make an unusually dense M...
Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Piling on to Software as a service; MEDPAC Plans

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 Everyone's piling onto Software as a Medical Service (SaMS), and related terms.  AMA CPT has been working on its Appendix S software co...

Revisited: CAP and CMS Go in Opposite Directions on Digital Pathology

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In July rulemaking, in both OPPS (hospital outpatient) and Physician (aka Part B) proposed rules, CMS announced it will evict digital pathol...

Very Brief Blog: CMS OPPS CY2027 Comment Due Aug 31

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There was a lot of action in summer rulemaking - both the OPPS and PFS (outpatient & physician part b) rules. The deadline for comment o...

AI Reviews: ADAPT OR BECOME IRRELEVANT - Alternative Visions for Pathology

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You may have seen it cited on Linked In - a new position paper on the future of pathology called,  “Adapt or Become Irrelevant: The Patholog...
Tuesday, August 25, 2026

AI Guest Author: Waiting for CRUSH Regulations from OMB

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  CRUSH at OMB: The Next Stage of a Twenty-Year Medicare Anti-Fraud Campaign AI Corner: Chat GPT 5.6; 8-25-2026 The next major Medicare and ...
Sunday, August 23, 2026

CRUSH Reaches White House / OMB, Who Will Release the Proposed Regulations

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  NEWS: CMS Sends Major CRUSH Anti-Fraud Rule to OMB The February request for information has quietly become an actual proposed rule, with n...
Saturday, August 22, 2026

Blog 5 of 5: AI Rewrites My Human Blog #3 (88305 Super-Providers)

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In this series of 5 blogs, Blog 3 (national and super-provider utilization) was written by Quinn by hand.  Here is  Blog 3 , rewritten from...

Blog 4 of 5; We Discover the Source of the CMS 88305 Data: Mesta et al., June 2026!

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50-word summary CMS’s July 2026 CY2027 Physician Fee Schedule proposal reproduced striking Maryland data suggesting CPT 88305 may be overva...