While there are always ongoing changes within the healthcare industry, the combined challenges that today’s laboratories face are momentous. The transition to value-based care...
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) allocated $4.8 billion to reimburse healthcare providers for testing people without health insurance for COVID-19, according...
Hologic announced that its subsidiary, Biotheranostics, has received broader Medicare coverage for its Breast Cancer Index test under an expanded Medicare Local Coverage Determination...
A UCLA-led study shows that physicians frequently order preventive medical services for adult Medicare beneficiaries that are considered unnecessary and of "low value" by the ...
The rate of claims denials at health systems and laboratories has been increasing, which means that managing denials is becoming an important part of an organization’s revenue...
More than 528,000 Americans signed up for health insurance through the electronic insurance exchange HealthCare.gov since the start of the 2021 special enrollment period, according...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) plans to provide $300 million to jurisdictions for services from community health workers (CHWs) to support prevention and...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized guidelines outlining when it will cover blood-based biomarkers tests for colorectal cancer screening, but it did not...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will provide more than $22 billion in funding to states, localities and territories to support COVID-19 testing and vaccination...
Optum, a health services company and part of UnitedHealth Group, announced that it plans to acquire Change Healthcare, a healthcare data analytics company, according to a press...
Among the lessons learned throughout the past transformative year in healthcare, a crucial one is that laboratories must get out of manual processes and go digital. Timelines ...
