Monday, February 27, 2017

Brief Blog: The Villainization of Obamacare

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While this blog doesn't normally touch on the broadest health policy issues, I was struck by a series of video clips of politicians deno...

Medicare MAC cancels CAC meetings: Cites Executive Order to Stop Issuing Regulations

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On January 24 and January 30, the Executive Branch issued two Executive Orders, one stopping the issuance of new regulations, and one requir...
Friday, February 24, 2017

ACOG RELEASES NEW CARRIER SCREENING GUIDANCE

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This blog carried an article about expanded carrier screening on February 20 ( here ).  Unknown to me at that time, this week American Colle...
Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Brief Blog: Tapestry Networks and the Diagnostic Quality Assurance Pilot for CDx

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At the 3000-person, 25th annual "Molecular Med TriCon" in San Francisco this week, multiple mentions of the Tapestry Networks ...
Monday, February 20, 2017

AMA Endorses Expanded Carrier Screening Through Online CME Course

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UPDATE! This blog was written on February 20, 2017 , and was based on AMA CME for expanded carrier screening and the fact that a new cod...

MolDX's Dr. Gary Spitzer Speaking on Liquid Biopsy Evidence: June 2017, SF

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This June, the Second Annual Liquid Biopsy Summit will be held in San Francisco, June 21-23 (website here ).    The conference includes 3 sh...

Brief Blog: Links to Rough Transcripts of Both Price Confirmation Hearings

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CSPAN provides onlive video archives of both of Secretary Tom Price's hearings for head of Health & Human Services - January 18 at t...
Friday, February 17, 2017

Brief Blog: Unique Annotated Transcript of Seema Verma Senate Hearing Here

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On February 16, 2017, President Trump's candidate for administrator of CMS was in a 2 1/2 hour hearing at the Senate Finance Committee. ...

Brief Blog: CMS Candidate Seema Verma Testifies at Senate Finance Committee

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On February 16, 2017, CMS leadership candidate Seema Verma testified in a nearly three-hour session of the Senate Finance Committee. C-Spa...

Brief Blog: Narrow Networks in Laboratory Medicine

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For several years, Dark Report and other trade journals have discussed the rising role of narrow-network payers and the impact on the lab in...
Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Brief Blog; CMS Candidate Seema Verma; Senate Confirmation Hearings Will Be Feb. 16

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President Trump's candidate for head of CMS, Seema Verma, is scheduled to interview with the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday, Febru...

Brief Blog: Evidence Street and MolDX

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In a publicly available deck from December 2016, Dr. Louis Jacques, Chief Clinical Officer at the consultancy ADVI, predicted that in 2017 t...
Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Brief Blog: 21st Century Cures and the CMTP Focus on Real-World Evidence

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Real world evidence has been extensively discussed in recent years, two Washington highpoints being a June 2016 white paper on RWE by the Bi...

The FDA"s Regulation for Expanded Carrier Screening

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Last summer, there was a publication in JAMA by Haque et al., the largest study ever undertaken of recessive carrier genes distributed over ...

Brief Blog: PMC Publishes Two Open Access Papers on Access to Personalized Medicine

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The Personalized Medicine Coalition has published an open-access white paper and an open access journal article on the integration of preci...