Upcoming Congressional Hearing on Lab Test Regulation

The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce is holding a hearing entitled “Examining the Regulation of Diagnostic Tests and Laboratory Operations” on November 17 at 2pm ET (note that the date was re-scheduled from an earlier date)....

First-Ever Rankings: Top 25 Companies In Precision Medicine

Thanks to one of my LinkedIn contacts, I was introduced to a newly released “scorecard” that ranks pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies based on their precision medicine efforts. In essence, the organizations who made the cut are the ones moving precision...

CMS Plan for Test Pricing Seems to Favor Large Labs

CMS has finally released its plan for market-based reimbursement of lab testing, and early reaction from industry seems to be that large test providers such as Quest and LabCorp will benefit most from the new system. The new system requires that “applicable...