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Laboratory Outreach 2011, presented by G2 Intelligence, is coming up June 15-17 in Las Vegas, NV. Focused specifically on Laboratory Outreach, this looks like it is going to have some great sessions.
I’m certainly hoping to be able to attend.
I am looking forward to attending CLMA’s ThinkLab ’11 in Baltimore next week. It’s always great to have an opportunity to obtain some focused continuing education, and the opportunity to network with friends and colleagues in the Lab Industry is invaluable.
Highlights include (from the CLMA Website):
More than 40 breakout sessions [...]
In a Joint Signature memorandum dated March 31, 2011 CMS has notified it’s contractors not to enforce the requirement to have a physician or NPP signature on paper requisitions for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests paid under the clinical laboratory fee schedule and will focus for the remainder of 2011 on changing the regulations. This change [...]
The American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS) and the Clinical Laboratory Management Association (CLMA) have announced that they have formed a task force to look at opportunities for collaboration between the two organizations. Members of both organizations received an email on April 7, 2011 from their respective Presidents with the following message:
We are [...]
I will be attending the upcoming CLMA ThinkLab ’11 in Baltimore, MD May 22-25. ThinkLab is always a great opportunity to get some Lab Management focused CE, and for networking with lab and outreach directors and other consultants from around the country. Looking forward to seeing all my CLMA friends and colleagues [...]
Early registration for CLEC 2011 ends this Saturday, January 8! Don’t miss the chance to save $75 on your conference registration: view the program and register today for ASCLS CLEC 2011: Education without Borders at www.ascls.org/conferences/clec2011.
CLEC will take place February 17-21, and participants can earn up to 11.5 P.A.C.E.® approved contact [...]
On this first day of the new year I am wishing all of my friends and professional colleagues a Happy New Year in 2011. I am looking forward to continuing to provide timely news and information related to the clinical laboratory industry this year, and am hoping to pull in some guest bloggers to help [...]
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has postponed implementation of a new physician signature requirement until the end of Q1 2011. This is good news to many in the clinical laboratory industry as it is felt that requiring a physician signature on the requisition is not going to provide any benefit or added [...]
A recent article on the Advance for Administrators of the Laboratory website discussed COLA’s release of a list of the 10 most frequently cited reasons for laboratory citations by its surveyors. The results are based on accreditation surveys conducted to meet U.S. CLIA and state regulatory requirements between 2008 and 2010. The most common are [...]
Dark Daily is reporting that federal attorneys have agreed to destroy the clinical pathology laboratory bid documents that had been submitted as part of the Medicare Part B Laboratory Competitive Bidding Demonstration Project that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) attempted to implement in 2008.
This appears to be the final chapter in this [...]
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