Health system lab directors have a clear top challenge, according to Penny Tisdale, laboratory administrative director of AnMed Health in Anderson, S.C.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City is taking GS Labs to court over allegedly inflating the price of COVID-19 tests to upward of 10 times that of competitors. 

UnitedHealthcare has delayed the start date of its designated diagnostic provider program for laboratory services in California until Jan. 1, 2022, due to concerns from the state's medical association and other stakeholders. 

A New Jersey judge dismissed a lawsuit June 30 alleging that Cigna refused coverage for a lab's COVID-19 services. 

Stamford, Conn-based Sema4, a genomics company spun out of Mount Sinai Health System, named Andrew Kasarskis, PhD, as its new chief data officer, according to a June 17 news release. 

CMS' price transparency rule aims to save Americans money by allowing them to price shop for healthcare services, but it's still common for patients to overpay for their tests and lab work, sometimes by thousands of dollars, according to research released June 8 by pharmacy discount company GoodRx.

The Diabetes, Endocrinology & Lipidology Center has agreed to pay $5,000 in a settlement to HHS' Office for Civil Rights for a potential HIPAA violation.

A medical testing lab in New Jersey filed a lawsuit against UnitedHealth Group on June 2, accusing the company and its units of not covering claims for COVID-19 tests, according to Law 360.

COVID-19 testing center Exceltox Laboratories shipped the protected health information of 4,571 patients through UPS, but it never reached its final destination, according to a May 7 data breach notification letter.