Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Here's the AI White Paper on Paying for AI...Articles from STAT and PETERSON

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Do payers pay for AI?   Or do they assume AI-mediated savings, and deflation of prices?  Is one clinical area totally different from another...
Monday, July 20, 2026

AI Guest Author: A Detailed White Paper about Payors and Genomics 2017-2026

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Header: An AI-generated 20-page white paper that surveys a decade of articles about payors and genomics.   Here's another adventure in c...

The LabCorp $14M Fine on Tox Testing (Humor)

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 You're probably seen press releases about the recent LabCorp $14M DOJ fine related to urine tox testing. There are some sources that go...

How I Use AI: "Ten Papers on Barriers to Molecular Test Adoption"

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 For some questions, AI can search Google or search PubMed more efficiently than I can. Today I asked Chat GPT to search PubMed and bring ba...
Sunday, July 19, 2026

AI Guest Author: Review of H&E AI Breast Cancer Prognosis, versus Standard Methods (21-gene)

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I have seen a scattering of articles that study whether AI interpretations of H&E slides can mirror the prognostic value of molecular te...

AI Can Do More Than You Think: Downloading the PDFs & Busywork

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UPDATE.  I did have one day of success asking Chat GPT in "LLM" mode to download PDF papers and give me a Zip file.  But it took ...

AMA CPT: Call for Comments on September 2026 New Codes; also AI in Code Change Application

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 AMA has a webpage for the September 17-19 Editorial Panel meeting in Minneapolis.  There are limited in person seats; first come first serv...
Thursday, July 16, 2026

Assessing the New MolDx LCD for Transplant Rejection; And Our First LCD Report from Agentic Instructions

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Header: MolDx releases a long-awaited LCD on transplant rejection testing.  See L40140 . Clear improvements in coverage and some explanation...

Tying Together: Five Policy Events Rapidly Circle Around Digital Pathology!

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Header: In the last couple months, five separate and active policy events circle around digital pathology. DP Policy Event 1:  CAT III WSI ...

Posted: Agenda for Digital Pathology Europe / London, December

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 The agenda for the Digital Pathology & AI Europe conference has been posted over at Linked Iin by Lauren Dennison.  Dates are 9-10 Dece...

CMS RFI: CMS Asks, How Should We Update CLIA Regulations?

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Header: CMS Publishes Request for Information: Let's Update CLIA, But How?   After several weeks of rumors, CMS has released a formal na...
Wednesday, July 15, 2026

AI Guest Author: Lyric Acquires Well-Known Consultancy "Concert"

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Header: Concert Joins Lyric; by Chat GPT Concert Joins Lyric—Finding a Much Larger Stage for Precision-Health Intelligence Big news arrived ...

AI Finds and Assesses: a New Alzheimer Tau217 Risk Study (Buckley 2026)

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We recently reported the news that Anthem would soon be covering FDA approved pTau217 blood test s, with conditions, as part of dementia dia...
Tuesday, July 14, 2026

WaPo Jumps on CMS RFI Against AMA CPT, RUC

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Header: WaPo Slams AMA Hard, Lands Punches Early On Tuesday, July 14, the Washington Post had a headline article ready to run, featuring a l...

CMS Releases Physician Fee Schedule Rule - Proposals for 2027

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On July 14, 2026, CMS released the Physician Fee Schedule (aka Part B rule) as proposals for 2027.   Find the early release version here (a...