Discoveries in Health Policy
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Friday, October 30, 2026
Very Brief Blog: Pennsyvania Passes Colorectal BIomarker Coverage State Law
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Here's a mini post to guide you to a press release at Guardant. Pennsylvania has passed a biomarker law, HB 1123, aligning CRC covera...
When Websites Go Down; McDermott Plus
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In an adjacent blog , I asked Claude to find publication dates for PFS and OPPS rules. It sourced the data from different sites. Sometimes...
When Will CMS PRS and OPPS Final Rules Appear? Today? Next Week? CLAUDE knows.
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Annual "final rules" for Physician Fee Schedule and Outpatient Prospective Payment System (PFS and HOPPS or OPPS) come out around...
Innovation Always Lives in an Ecosystem (featuring Guardant)
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In a recent analysis , Guardant has nearly $1B in market cap per 100 employees, rising to $25B market cap and 2500 employees since its found...
Market Cap per 100 Employees: Guardant and Natera the Clear Leaders
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We have the multiple of share price over revenue, and share price over netcome. Another one is share price per 100 employees. For this me...
Thursday, October 29, 2026
All About the Precision Medicine World Conference - Santa Clara - Jan 27-29, 2027
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For the Precision Medicine World Conference - 3 days at the end of January 2027 -here's the website: https://pmwcintl.com/ And here...
Journal of Pathology Informatics: How Momentum Changed from 2022 to 2026
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A companion blog discusses the excellent Michagan conference , December 10-12, 2026, sponsored by Association for Pathology Informatics. He...
Digital Pathology Gets Real: A Timely December Workshop at Michigan Medicine / Dec 10-11-12
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Digital Pathology Gets Real: A Timely December Workshop at Michigan Medicine / Dec 10-11-12 Byline: Chat GPT 6 (Los Angeles, October 29) A...
Wednesday, October 28, 2026
GenomeWeb Makes PAMA’s Impact Personal—with a Downloadable Spreadsheet
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GenomeWeb Makes PAMA’s Impact Personal—with a Downloadable Spreadsheet The reporting: substantial cuts, and uncertain relief Chat GPT 6 (L...
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
PAMA Bizarre Patterns Revisited: When Outliers Drive Your Cash Flow
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A week ago, we used PAMA raw data to show not just the median price for codes, but the actual distribution of payments (normal vs bimoda v...
Employers Sue United Healthcare: Does It Overpay Providers??
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Header: A large group of employers sues United Healthcare, asserting it overpays providers when it is merely dolely out third-party admini...
Monday, October 26, 2026
A Mouse is Not a Microscope: Digital Pathology Waiting for Quantum Leap in User Devices
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Header: Should digital pathology have a true revolution in the quality of input devices? ### Recently, we blogged about how digital pathol...
Sunday, October 25, 2026
Version 2: CMS, NIH, FDA Websites Switching to "SUPER INTELLIGENCE"
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VERSION TWO - SUPER INTELLIGENCE The original version of this blog discussed government websites switching to "SUPER INTELLIGENCE"...
Version One; It's Here, It's Now: CMS, NIH, FDA Websites Switching to "SUPER INTELLIGENCE"
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Saturday, October 24, 2026
PAMA Unveils Bizarre Patterns for US Lab Test Pricing
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Here's an analysis run mostly by AI, based on my ability to "vibe code" instructions of what AI had to do with raw PAMA Excel ...
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