Sunday, August 2, 2026

Linked In Deep Dive: Daniel G's Writings on Where MRD Is Going

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  Daniel G. and the Rise of the LinkedIn Topic Expert in MRD https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-giner/ LinkedIn has developed its own class ...
Saturday, August 1, 2026

Big News: The FIND RCT Study in Colorectal Cancer: Integrating ctDNA and Imaging Management (Mo et al.)

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SUMMARY: The randomized phase III FIND trial integrated serial ctDNA methylation testing with protocol-driven CT imaging after colorectal c...

Linked In Deep Dive: Josh Bowerman's Articles on Genomics Industry Dynamics

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Josh Bowerman Maps the Rapidly Changing World of Clinical Genomics Josh Bowerman has developed a distinctive body of commentary on clinical ...

LinkedIn Deep Dive: Jack Kohler's Work on Interpreting Clinical Trials for Commercial

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  Reading the Clinical Paper Commercially: Jack Kohler’s Methods to Bridge from Evidence to Strategy The essay below is written by Chat GPT ...
Friday, July 31, 2026

Major News: FDA Posts Its 28pp Review of ArteraAI - Breast Cancer Computational Pathology

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In May 2026, ArteraAI got FDA clearance for its computational pathology test for breast cancer.  FDA can take "weeks to months" to...
Thursday, July 30, 2026

AI Guest Author: AI Researches, Writes, White Paper on the "87798" Story at Medicare

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A once-obscure CPT code, 87798, PCR for "other organism," exploded in usage to become the highest-paid molecular code in 2014.  Du...
Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Very Brief Blog: New Book Coming: Pixels and Precision Pathology

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 It's not out yet, but I'm seeing publicity for a new book on computational pathology, "Precision Pathology: From Pixels to Pr...
Tuesday, July 28, 2026

AI Corner: AI Counts New Diagnostic LCDs, Timelines

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I was interested in how many LCDs the different MACs produce for lab diagnostics (MolDx, Novitas, Wellpoint Federal [former NGS MAC].) To my...

Nerd Note: How CMS Handles Initial OPPS Pricing of the Newest Cat III Codes

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In the previous blog , I noted that CMS provides proposed OPPS/APC prices of Cat III codes that won't be effective for six months...and ...

AMA Releases Cat III Codes; CMS Prices New Digital Pathology Cat III Codes

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 A lot of action on the digital pathology front. #1 AMA RELEASES Dig Path CODES After the equivalent of a moratorium on new digital patholog...
Monday, July 27, 2026

Excellent Movie May Contain Medicare Policy Error

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 I live in Hollywood; I love movies.   I've worked on CMS policy for twenty years; I love CMS policy. Here's a potential glitch wher...

Two Articles by Lennerz: (1) Fixing European IVD Regs, (2) Flexible & Agile Regulation

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 One of the most reliably interesting voices on Linked In is Joe Lennerz, successively of Harvard, Boston Gene, and now Natera.  Find his ho...
Sunday, July 26, 2026

WSJ Opinion Piece: "Trump's Plan to Reform the AMA"

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On July 14, the Washington Post had a scoop as the physician payment rule was released: it would contain an abrasive RFI going after AMA for...

Very Brief Blog: Hospital Charges In Real Life: $15,417 for $446

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 I had an MRI in June at a nearby hospital outpatient center.   When I log onto Medicare.gov/my/claims, I see the MRI code the hospital cha...
Friday, July 24, 2026

How I Use AI: What Percent of CRC Stool-test Orders Get Done? What Percent of Positives Get Colonoscopy?

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Header:  Chat GPT rapidly answers general medical questions, here, slippage in colon cancer screening. ## We had a screening colonoscopy in ...