by Dennis Weissman & Associates, LLC | Jun 25, 2018 | Healthcare
Don’t look now but behemoth Amazon, the largest internet retailer in the world, is already on its way to becoming a disruptive force in health care. Already. Amazon has begun selling medical supplies and equipment in the U.S. and specific medical products globally,...
by Dennis Weissman & Associates, LLC | Jun 18, 2018 | Affordable Care Act, Healthcare
Despite failed attempts over the past year to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Trump Administration has moved ahead with administrative changes to dilute the law by allowing for short-term and association health plans that circumvent certain ACA protections...
by Dennis Weissman & Associates, LLC | Mar 28, 2018 | Clinical Laboratory
Get ready for some major market challenges ahead in the $97 billion U.S. laboratory industry according to a new research report, “The U.S. Clinical Laboratory Industry Forecast & Trends 2018-2020,” published by Laboratory Economics. Among the counter...
by Dennis Weissman & Associates, LLC | Mar 21, 2018 | Healthcare
Coming like a shot out the the blue, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Centers may have opened up a real hornet’s nest in asking for public input on who should be allowed to perform testing in U.S. laboratories as defined by the Clinical Laboratory Improvement...
by Dennis Weissman & Associates, LLC | Jan 24, 2018 | Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Despite strong opposition from significant portions of the clinical laboratory industry, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) went ahead to issue final Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule (CLFS) market-based prices which slashed many lab test rates by 10...
