Wednesday, August 26, 2026

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...
Friday, August 21, 2026

88305: Blog 3 of 5: National and Busy-Individual Usage for 88305 in Medicare Part B

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In summer rulemaking, CMS proposed surgical biopsy billion-dollar-code 88305 as a mispriced code.  Blog #1 here .    I also had Chat GPT res...
Thursday, August 20, 2026

FDA Approves De Novo Software that Makes Diagnosis on Brain MRI: NeuroPacs

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August 7, we published a blog on software diagnosis in radiology and asked how fast it might come to pathology.    Here .  And we've alr...

88305: Blog 2 of 5: The Ancient History of Surg Path Coding (88305 1960s?)

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Here's a challenge I gave to Chat GPT 5.6.  What's the origin of the coding system for surgical pathology - biopsies 88305, etc.   C...
Wednesday, August 19, 2026

88305: Blog 1 of 5: CMS Proposes Review of Code 88305. Chat GPT Writes White Paper Report.

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 In July, when CMS released the proposed policies for physician fee schedule aka Part B, it included a proposal to review the valuation of ...
Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Chat GPT Reviews History of McDermott Plus Consulting - After News from Politico

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We're waiting for confirmation of a news item in Politico that McDermott Plus is closing in August 2026. While we wait, Chat GPT ran a i...
Sunday, August 16, 2026

New Proposal Introduces Broader Authority for Political Input to NIH Grant Decisions

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Back in May 2026 , OMB issued a proposed rule that would lay out the authority and framework for political appointees to have a much stronge...

Why CMS MAC Questions for Synuclein Diagnostics Miss the Main Point

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This week, on August 20, several Medicare MACs will hold a public session on the literature on alpha-synuclein tesitng for Parkinson's a...

You Can Still Register for "CAC" Meeting on Synuclein Testing (Neurodegeneration)

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On Thursday, August 20, 2026, Noridian and some other MACs will hold a listen-only conference on neurodegeneration, specifically, use of alp...
Saturday, August 15, 2026

Patient Rights Group Sues AMA Over the "CPT Monopoly"

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 AMA CPT was in the spotlight in mid-July, when CMS released a "request for information" that was highly concerned about both the ...