On July 23, 2024, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Health Alert Network (HAN) message to inform healthcare providers, laboratory professionals, healthcare facility administrators, and health departments about a critical shortage of Becton Dickinson (BD) BACTEC blood culture media bottles. BD Diagnostics, Inc. has reported an interruption in the
Aculabs' clinical lab director, Rita Khoury, MD, recently enjoyed the opportunity to sit down and speak with Market Leaders, a podcast hosted by the national healthcare publication McKnights Home Care, about TB Gold testing and the strategies laboratories like Aculabs utilize for long-term care facilities. From McKnights' website: Long-term care residents are at
August 11, 2017 - The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is preparing to implement the Protecting Access to Medicare Act. This requires CMS to collect information about private payor reimbursement from all parts of the laboratory market, and base the Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule (CLFS) payments on the weighted median of these rates. However,