Monday, September 23, 2024

CMS "TCET" Webinar Today: Auto Article, Auto Transcript

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Today, September 23, 2024, CMS held a one hour webinar, half Q&A, about its Transitional Coverage for Emerging Technologies.   Here we p...

On Demand: Decibio Webinar on "Oncologists and the Digital Pathology Revolution"

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Header: An informative Decibio webinar on "Oncologists and Digital Pathology" can be viewed on-demand. ### Since this is an articl...
Sunday, September 22, 2024

Journal Club: "Vision of Future: Value Based Lab Medicine" (Plebani et al.)

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Thanks to Joe Lennerz MD (Boston Gene) for highlighting the current European Federation of Laboratory Medicine (EFLM) conference in Padua I...
Friday, September 20, 2024

Brief Blog: FDA Data "Up" for ILMN Trusight FDA Panel

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Back on August 21, 2024, Illumina announced it had received approval for a 517-gene panel, including TMB, and two PMA companion diagnostic c...
Thursday, September 19, 2024

Medicare Trivia: The MAC Implementation File for NTAP

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I was looking at the transmittal for FY2025 for hospital claims ( here )  It referred to a "MAC Implementation File" for NTAP. ...

AI Corner: Example of AI in Use: The Lancet Global Report on Antibiotic Resistance

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 AI Corner This is an example of using AI prompts in different ways to get different AI views on the same source material. This past week, S...

Commonwealth Report on US Health Costs, Quality. Article on Healthcare Innovation Pricing.

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Commonwealth Fund publishes a report on international health costs and quality; US fares poorly. Healthcare Dive summary  here .  Commonweal...

"DEX (Z codes) Welcomes Humana Medicare Advantage"

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 Thanks to Ann Lambrix for pointing out a new announcement on the MolDx home page, "Welcome Humana Medicare Advantage to Dex!". S...

CMS Issues RFI: Consolidating MAC Jurisdictions

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 The CMS Part A, Part B, MAC MAP has been the same for many years, since Palmetto won the "Cahaba" jurisdiction in 2017/2018 . CMS...
Monday, September 16, 2024

Chat GPT Faces the 2022, 400-page VALID ACT

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Chat GPT wasn't around in 2022, but the 400-page VALID ACT was, and for a while, VALID had some momentum in Congress. See a May 2022 art...

The FDA LDT Rule: Why HLA Tests for Transplant Aren't Going to Be Hit by FDA

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FDA plans to demand increasingly tight, phased-in regulation of nearly all laboratory-developed tests between 2025 and 2028.  However, a few...