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New Approach for Optimizing Antifungal Therapy: Two-Step Rapid Fungal Diagnostic by PCR/NGS
Aires December 4, 2024 — SIGN UP HERE
Early detection is vital for successfully treating life-threatening invasive fungal and mold infections. Traditional culture-based methods can be challenging, time-consuming, and costly, leading to delays in organism identification and the timely administration of critical antifungal therapies. The emergence of advanced PCR/NGS technologies has set a new gold standard for rapid identification and diagnosis, ensuring timely and appropriate patient care. Join our webinar to discover an innovative 24-hour fungal diagnostic tool that identifies molds and yeasts with precision! MicroGenDX is a leader in Next-Generation DNA Sequencing, delivering enhanced sensitivity compared to standard culture methods. This innovative 2-step PCR/NGS process enables rapid and precise diagnosis of fungal infections, achieving 99% accuracy within just 24 – 48 hours. This invaluable tool streamlines the identification of complex infections, ensuring that patients receive targeted treatment from the outset, leading to quicker resolutions and allowing for the rapid de-escalation of costly antifungal medications.
This free 60 minute webinar, sponsored by MicroGenDX and hosted by Dark Daily, is your chance to learn about NGS tools of the future for fungal diagnostics.
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2024 Payor Denial Impact Report: Data-Driven Strategies for Denial Management and Appeals Success
Aires December 11, 2024 — SIGN UP HERE
Are you ready to enhance your denial management and appeals strategies? Don’t let denials cause hard-earned revenue to slip through the cracks. Join us in this free webinar to learn how optimizing appeal strategies can help reduce costs and improve patient engagement, boosting financial performance. During this webinar, finance and revenue cycle management leaders can expect to learn: 1) Top Denial Reasons by Segment and Payor Group: Understand leading denial drivers by segment and payor group and uncover process improvements to help reduce costly rejections. 2) Insights into Appeal Success Rates: See how your organization’s appeal performance compares to industry benchmarks and where to focus for higher success. 3) Strategies for Successful Appeals: Discover the appeal approaches with the highest success rates to maximize your revenue recovery potential. 4) Tricky Payor Policies to Watch: Learn which challenging payor policies to monitor closely to help minimize denials and improve appeals success. 5) Workflow Automation and AI for Enhanced Productivity: Learn how leveraging workflow automation and AI can simplify complex appeals, lower costs, and support patient engagement to improve financial performance.
This webinar, sponsored by XiFin and hosted by Dark Daily, will explore current denial and appeal trends and discuss strategies to fuel financial success for hospital outreach, independent labs, molecular diagnostics, and pathology practices.
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FDA’s LDT RULE: Steps to Prepare for Your FDA First Milestone Submission
Aired November 7, 2024 — Stream On Demand
No single regulatory development will have greater impact on your lab’s clinical service menu and financial performance than the urgent need to comply with the FDA’s LDT rule. With the compliance clock ticking and the first regulatory milestone arriving in May 2025—just seven months from now—you now have the opportunity to learn the most productive steps necessary to protect the LDTs essential to patient care and your lab’s finances!
This second LDT webinar in our well-attended, ongoing series delivers to you and your team a clear path forward for achieving the twin goals of preserving your LDTs with the greatest clinical value while safeguarding the indispensable revenue generated by those same LDT.. Learn more and register.
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Enhancing Laboratory Efficiency & Reducing Turnaround Time
Aired October 30, 2024 — Stream On Demand
Break Free from Lab Bottlenecks with Faster Diagnostics, Better Care. Tired of delays in your lab’s turnaround times? Traditional methods often bottleneck results, hindering timely patient care, but forward-thinking organizations can revolutionize their workflows by adopting a more modern and innovative approach. During this webinar, you will: Learn how outdated lab practices can lead to inefficient workflows and delays. Discover the structured approach of CPI in optimizing lab processes. Explore how this innovative method can enable uninterrupted workflow and faster results. See how organizations have successfully implemented these strategies to improve turnaround times and patient care.
This webinar, sponsored by BioMerieux and hosted by Dark Daily, will explore how continuous process improvement (CPI) and time-based microbiology can streamline your workflows, reduce wait times, and improve overall laboratory efficiency. Learn more and register.
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Is Mpox a Global Concern? Why Labs Need to Prepare for a New, Dangerous Cutaneous Strain Approaching the U.S.
Aired October 29, 2024 —Stream On Demand
On August 14, 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared mpox a global emergency once again. This latest outbreak is exacerbated by a more virulent strain known as clade 1b, which poses a significant threat to global communities. Every laboratory should proactively prepare for the potential arrival of this virus in the U.S. by understanding the evolution of Mpox transmission and becoming familiar with Mpox clade classifications for accurate diagnosis, tracking, and outbreak control. Labs must be well-versed in best practices for data submission and public health compliance to ensure timely identification and reporting of cases. In this webinar, we will delve into diverse causes of cutaneous ulcers, examining outcomes of the mpox virus infection that could lead to autoimmune diseases, and chronic conditions. We will provide a thorough overview of mpox symptoms, clinical manifestations and discuss effective management and treatment strategies.
This free webinar is sponsored by Seegene and hosted by Dark Daily. This webinar is important to attend to learn about the spread, virus mutation classifications and reporting requirements for mpox.. Learn more and register.
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2025 Laboratory Revenue Cycle Management Trends: Leveraging Automation and Predictive Analytics to Future-Proof Your Lab Operations
Aired October 22, 2024 — Sream On Demand
Laboratories are undergoing a transformative shift in balancing patient care with operational efficiency. Grappling with the dual challenge of ensuring financial stability while delivering exceptional patient care, all within the constraints of a limited pool of qualified billing professionals. As we approach 2025, the stakes for optimizing revenue with precision have never been higher. In this evolving landscape, maintaining a robust revenue cycle management system is no longer a choice—it’s an absolute necessity to remain profitable!
This free webinar, sponsored by SYNERGEN Health and hosted by Dark Daily will provide the opportunity to arm your laboratory with the strategies and insights needed to thrive in a rapidly evolving RCM landscape. Learn more and register.
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The Importance (and Timing) of Hiring a Transition Planner for Your Lab Move
Aired September 25, 2024 —Stream On Demand
Relocating a laboratory is a complex and high-stakes endeavor. With valuable equipment, irreplaceable specimens, and patient outcomes on the line, mistakes can be costly and time-consuming. That’s why effective transition planning is essential. Many lab teams underestimate the challenges involved in a relocation and postpone hiring a transition planner until it’s too late. This can lead to budget overruns, missed deadlines, and potential damage to equipment and specimens. Don’t let unforeseen challenges derail your lab relocation project.
This free webinar, sponsored by VOC Associates and hosted by Dark Daily, will explore how the right transition partner can help mitigate risks, optimize resources, and ensure minimal disruption to your operations. Learn more and register.
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Understanding Cost Per Test to Drive Strategic Pricing and Outreach Profitability
Aired September 18, 2024 — Stream On Demand
Join us to discover Wisconsin Diagnostic Laboratories’ proven strategies for understanding the test cost structure and creating a repeatable process for client-level profitability reviews and strategic pricing decisions. With declining reimbursement and operational pricing pressures being put on laboratories, understanding your costs has never been more important.
What You’ll Learn: √ Gain a deep understanding of your laboratory’s cost structure √ Develop a systematic approach to client-level profitability analysis √ Make data-driven pricing decisions to optimize revenue √ Improve overall laboratory performance and sustainability. Learn more and register.
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FDA’s LDT RULE: Understanding What’s Compulsory, What’s Not!
Aired September 12, 2024 — Stream On Demand
Laboratories face unprecedented challenges with this ruling and may need to make some difficult decisions regarding their LDT menus. Despite ongoing litigation against the new rule, the FDA expects laboratories to implement the full FDA Medical Device Quality System and be in compliance by May 6, 2025—followed by other compliance requirements for 2026 and 2027. It’s one compelling reason why this webinar is a “must attend” for you and key members of your team.
What You’ll Learn: √ How to Protect Your Lab’s Proprietary LDTs and Assess the Financial Impact of Compliance – Essential Actions Every Lab Should Take Now to Calculate the Cost-Benefit of LDT Compliance.. Learn more and register.
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New Tools for Stool: Targeted use of multiplex syndrome GI molecular PCR Testing
Aired July 17, 2024 —Stream On Demand
Stool culture and microscopy have long been the mainstay of diagnosing gastrointestinal (GI) infections. However, these traditional methods can be time-consuming, labor-intensive, and microscopy requires highly skilled and experienced technologists for accurate results. Recent advancements in molecular testing offer promising alternatives. Multiplex PCR offers a faster, more targeted approach for identifying gastrointestinal (GI) pathogens. While this novel technique can potentially reduce labor requirements, they can be limited in their ability to detect a broad range of pathogens and may require specific sample types that could hinder broader adoption.
This webinar will explore the scientific principles behind multiplex PCR and its applications for the identification of various GI pathogens. Learn more and register.
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Sample Prep: Advancing Cancer Research with Tools for Liquid Biopsy
Aired July 10, 2024 —Stream On Demand
Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for nearly 10 million deaths in 2020, or nearly one in six deaths, according to the World Health Organization. Many cancers can be cured if detected early and treated effectively. Cancer detection and treatment are based on biomarker analysis from a patient tumor sample, called tissue biopsy. As a minimal invasive option complementary to traditional biopsies, liquid biopsies enable discovery of highly specific and sensitive biomarkers and can be used for dynamic and timely monitoring of tumor progression. The three major types of biomarkers being isolated and analyzed in liquid biopsy are circulating tumor cells (CTCs), extracellular vesicles, and circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA). Learn more and register.
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Maximizing Appeal Success: Latest Trends in Lab & Pathology Claim Denials
Aired June 5, 2024 — Stream On Demand
In this webinar, we will share the latest data on clinical, molecular and pathology denial and appeal trends and provide insights on a strategic appeals process designed to help laboratories save time and boost success rates. We’ll also share best practices for quantifying the revenue resulting from improving appeals success.. Learn more and register.
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How to Keep Your Clinical Laboratory’s Quality Control Plans on Track
Aired May 22, 2024 — Stream On Demand
Laboratories are required by the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) regulations to have a quality control process to monitor the accuracy and precision of their testing process. Individualized quality control plans (IQCPs) are an option that allows laboratories to develop a QC process specific to their unique testing environment and patient population. This webinar will review the elements of an IQCP and discuss best practices in developing IQCPs, while going over practical examples from the clinical laboratory.. Learn more and register.
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Maximizing Financial Outcomes: Data-Driven Strategies for RCM Workflow Prioritization
Aired April 17, 2024 — Stream On Demand
In this webinar, we explore how understanding historical data on payments, denials, payor activities, and denial types can strategically position RCM teams for improved collections and resource utilization. Join us to discover how data-driven decision-making can revolutionize revenue cycle management processes and drive financial success. Learn more and register.
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STIs and Resistant Organisms: Causes, Prevalence, Treatments and Tests
Aired April 10, 2024 — Stream On Demand
Join us for a comprehensive review of the causes and prevalence of sexually transmitted infections and the tests and treatments care teams can use to detect STIs and resistance markers. During the event, we take a critical look at epidemiologic data to illustrate the scope of STIs across time and among populations. Learn more and register.
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Reimbursement Strategies for Denials Management: To Appeal or Not to Appeal?
Aired March 27, 2024 —Stream On Demand
Don’t miss this webinar, which is hosted by Dark Daily and sponsored by TELCOR. In this webinar, our panel of experts will guide participants through the process of responding to reimbursement claim denials, from identifying potential appeals to assessing their likelihood of success. Join us to learn best practices and strategies to maximize revenue and avoid appeals pitfalls. Learn more and register.
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The Triple Threat: Has it changed since the last respiratory season?
Aired February 28, 2024 — Stream On Demand
Since the pandemic, there has been a triple threat of SARS-CoV-2, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus during the respiratory seasons. Distinguishing between the three based on symptoms alone can be challenging, as they share common clinical manifestations, so diagnostic tests, including PCR and rapid antigen tests, have become crucial for accurate identification. While last year’s “tripledemic” brought a surge of influenza and RSV cases in addition to SARS-CoV-2 – how does this year’s respiratory season compare? Learn more and register.
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New Solutions in Laboratory Supply and Logistics Management that Cut Costs, Improve Compliance, and Boost Revenue
Aired February 21, 2024 — Stream On Demand
Don’t miss this upcoming webinar, which is hosted by Dark Daily and sponsored by 1health. This enlightening session is tailored for laboratory administrators and supply chain managers who are keen on transforming their operations for the better. Learn the art of compliantly managing kitting, supply ordering, and supply fulfillment for physician clients. Delve into the realm of software solutions designed to digitize manual kitting practices, optimizing reimbursement processes. This essential webinar will feature established industry experts Christopher Hill, Principal Product Manager at 1health, and Nate Rickard, Chief Technology Officer at Thorne. They bring a wealth of experience and innovation to the table, promising insights that can reshape how you manage your laboratory’s physician office supply chain. Learn more and register.
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From Market Access Through Reimbursement: Your Playbook to Maximize Revenue and Cash Flow
Aired December 12, 2023 — Stream On Demand
Join us for a Dark Daily Webinar to gain insight into the optimal playbook that will enable your organization to: Ways to solidify market access and payor coverage. How to automate the RCM workflow, including exception processing and denials management. Strategic appeals management approaches that reduce administrative burden and increase success rates. Where to apply artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline complex processes and accelerate reimbursement.Learn more and register.
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Best Practices in Molecular Assay Validation for Laboratory-Developed Tests
Aired November 8, 2023 — Stream On Demand
This free, 60-minute webinar with live Q&A will explain validation requirements as defined by the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) and College of American Pathologists (CAP). In addition, our distinguished presenter, Kenneth Gavina, PhD, D(ABMM),SM(ASCP), of Eskenazi Health and the Indiana University School of Medicine will review best practices in designing and performing validation studies, as well as review quality control methods of molecular LDTs and their reagents. Learn more and register.
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Precision Oncology: Potential of Liquid Biopsy to Enhance Tumor Profiling Capabilities in Breast Cancer Management
Aired October 11, 2023 — Stream On Demand
Join Karen Page, PhD, of the Leicester Cancer Research Centre in the UK for learnings from the Shaw laboratory’s research in precision oncology. This free webinar with live Q&A will focus on progress and outcomes of the Shaw lab’s next-generation sequencing applications, including an important breast cancer management pilot study. Learn more and register.
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Validating a Multiplex STI Panel With Non-Invasive Sample Types: Unleash the Potential
Aired September 27, 2023 — Stream On Demand
Join Vijay Singh, PhD, for key concepts in validating a multiplex STI panel as a laboratory developed test and more. Singh leads the development of molecular tests for pathogen and disease targets for Denton, Texas-based HealthTrackRx. This free webinar with live Q&A will focus on adapting to and validating a single assay for four commonly requested STI tests, using two separate PCR platforms and non-invasive sample types. Learn more and register.
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Unlocking RCM Potential: How AI Is Shaping Revenue Cycle Management Workflow
Aired September 20, 2023 — Stream On Demand
Operating in an environment of ever-changing payer policies, revenue cycle management leaders of clinical laboratories, molecular diagnostic providers, and pathology practices may need to consider workflow changes now. Learn what it means and how it works for determining where to focus your AI efforts in the RCM workflow. Learn more and register.
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Essential Guide to Obtaining Z-Codes for Molecular and Genetic Tests
Aired June 29, 2023 — Buy Now On-Demand
UnitedHealthcare’s recent announcement of a new Z-Code policy for molecular diagnostic test claims leaves many genetic and molecular testing labs at immediate risk for denials as of October 1st. Labs that do not have Z-Codes for their tests must take immediate steps to complete technical assessments and other requirements. Learn more from Gabriel Bien-Willner, MD, PhD, Medical Director of MolDx and Chief Medical Officer of Palmetto GBA, the firm tasked with the Z-Code implementation; Valerie Collier, MS, CGC, who leads ARUP Laboratories in its participation in MolDx and submitting technical assessments; and Kyle Fetter, Chief Operating Officer at XiFin, Inc., who works with clients to successfully bill molecular and genetic tests and resolve denials. Learn more or buy now.
FREE WebinarBlood Culture Contamination: Leveraging IPs to Improve this Critical Lab Quality Metric
Aired July 26, 2023 — Stream On-Demand
This free webinar, sponsored by Magnolia Medical Technologies, supports lab professionals, infection preventionists (IPs), and clinicians in their blood culture contamination quality improvement initiatives. This webinar will draw from the experiences of IP professional and quality improvements and dispel potential myths about blood culture contamination. Learn more and register.
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Digital Pathology Implementation Strategies
Aired May 10, 2023 — Stream On-Demand
Experts will focus on the business-side foundation, implementation requirements of digital pathology service and workflow, and lessons learned through years of consultation, use case development, and implementation. Learn more.
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Learning from Payer Behavior to Increase Appeal Success
Aired March 29, 2023 — Stream On-Demand
Use this webinar to understand payer behavior, including recent trends in denials and appeals by payer, for planning revenue cycle management process improvements.
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Advances in Diagnostic Testing for the Bacteria, Viruses, and Parasites Behind Infectious Gastroenteritis
Aired March 23, 2023 — Stream On-Demand
This webinar is a must attend program for lab managers and administrators who recognize the challenges of infectious gastroenteritis testing.
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Three Clinical Laboratory Trends Not to Misjudge: Genetic Test Reimbursement, Staffing Shortages, and Major Reforms to CLIA
Aired March 1, 2023 — Stream On-Demand
A free clinical lab intelligence webinar brought to you by the publishers of The Dark Report and Dark Daily. Recognizing the implications of three important trends in 2023.
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Leading Your Clinical Laboratory and Pathology Management Groups Through “The Great Resignation”
Aired November 15, 2022 — Stream On-Demand
Our new, free webinar will reveal three leadership fundamentals that new lab leaders can use to inspire their teams.
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Pharmacogenomics: Leveraging Capacity to Expand Your Molecular Laboratory Capabilities
Aired October 26, 2022 — Stream On-Demand
This webinar explores how laboratory technology, science, implementation models, and economic proof points have all achieved deployable maturity for PGx labs.
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Expanding Molecular Diagnostic Market Share, Patient Access, and Physician Engagement: Critical Success Factors for Maximizing Test Volume and Reimbursement
Aired September 28, 2022 — Stream On-Demand
This webinar delivers practical approaches, process enhancements, and payer strategies essential to growing novel diagnostic market share through proactive, purposeful, and technologically enabled engagements with patients, physicians, and payers.
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Post-COVID Pivot: How to Expand Your Network for Doctor Referrals, Know What Tests Are in Demand Now, and Actually Get Paid for the Work You Do
Aired September 15, 2022 — Stream On-Demand
To help hospital and lab leaders understand how to pivot to new revenue streams after COVID, this new webinar hosted by Dark Daily focuses on the top business-critical issues.
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Next Step for Molecular Diagnostics and Antimicrobial Resistance: How to Maximize Advanced Technology in the Lab
Aired September 14, 2022 — Stream On-Demand
This is an opportunity for clinical laboratory directors and managers to better understand how to work collaboratively with physicians and pathologists to improve their antimicrobial stewardship interventions and protocols.
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Improving Sepsis Diagnosis and Management: The Lab’s Role in Enhancing Patient Care from Arrival to Discharge
Aired August 31, 2022 | Free — Stream On-Demand
Walk with our experts through a patient journey example—following a sepsis patient through the ED and ICU, until they are discharged—where we reveal laboratory processes that can proactively provide physicians with lifesaving information in a more timely manner.
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Improving Clinical Lab Performance: How Lean Six Sigma Methods Help Eliminate Waste, Save Money, and Increase Productivity
Aired Thursday, August 18, 2022 | Free — Stream On-Demand
Join us to learn how Lean Six Sigma contributes to a continuous improvement culture that enables laboratory directors and pathologists to maintain higher quality services while operating in a financially sustainable way.
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New Tactics for Hiring Traditional and Specialized Clinical Laboratory Roles
Aired Thursday, June 23, 2022 | Free — Stream On-Demand
For clinical labs and anatomical and clinical pathology group directors looking to fill open, high-demand positions, it may be time to take action beyond just beefing up salaries. This new 60-minute webinar will bring constructive strategies for dealing with the labor shortage problem in the lab industry.
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Leverage AI to Protect the Integrity of Your Laboratory’s Revenue Cycle
Aired Wednesday, June 8, 2022 | Free — Stream On-Demand
Dark Daily will host a new 60-minute webinar that will feature revenue cycle leaders who have leveraged advanced AI/ML to identify revenue performance and compliance opportunities, while proactively addressing and remediating financial issues that all labs face.
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Optimizing Efficiency in Clinical Microbiology Labs: Steps to Avoid Unnecessary Tests Through Diagnostic and Antimicrobial Stewardship
Aired Tuesday, May 24, 2022 | Free — Stream On-Demand
Dark Daily will host a new 60-minute webinar that will review the quality improvement (QI) project of a 425-bed academic medical center. We will examine the impact of a 90% reduction in blood culture contamination rates and the direct effect on antimicrobial stewardship efforts which resulted in a 31% reduction in vancomycin days of therapy (DOT).
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Pre-Analytical Improvements for the Sake of Analytical Nirvana
Aired Wednesday, April 20, 2022 | Free — Stream On-Demand
Dark Daily will host a new 60-minute webinar that will be of interest to clinical laboratory leaders pursuing sample/specimen integrity assurance and courier efficiency.
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Breaking News on Trends and Denials Involving Lab Test Claims
Aired Wednesday, April 6, 2022 | Free — Stream On-Demand
This free 60-minute webinar will cover the latest trends in denials and appeals; review best practice tactics for achieving successful appeals; and learn the payer policies to keep in mind to maximize your appeals success.
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Changing Clinical Laboratory Billing Operations Through AI and Advanced Data Automation
Aired Thursday, January 27, 2022 | Free — Stream On-Demand
This free, 60-minute webinar will bring valuable insights and best practices from relevant use cases where labs used advanced automation, AI, revenue process automation (RPA), and other next-generation technology for revenue cycle management.
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What Lab Leaders Need to Know: Data Security Agreements, Surprise Billing, EKRA, AKS, CURES Act, and More
Aired Thursday, January 20, 2022 | $195 — Stream On-Demand
Get a better understanding of the new year’s fast-moving legal, regulatory, and compliance challenges facing the clinical lab industry and protect your practice from unnecessary risk with this 90-minute webinar featuring experts from the law firm McDonald Hopkins, LLC.
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Pharmacogenomics: Data and Innovation to Deliver Precise and Appropriate Medication Use
Aired Thursday, December 9, 2021 | FREE — Stream On-Demand
This 60-minute webinar will help you understand the impact of pharmacogenomics (PGx) in prescription prescribing and evaluate the technical challenges and limitations associated with scaling it. The session will also explore PGx solutions that can be easily implemented in your laboratory.
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The Practical Impacts of the No Surprises Act on Laboratories, Diagnostic Providers, and Specialty Physician Groups
Aired Wednesday, November 17, 2021 | FREE — Stream On-Demand
Surprise billing remains a hot topic in Washington. It occurs when patients unknowingly receive either emergency or non-emergency care from an out-of-network provider. The webinar also touches on the importance of providers having the capability to provide an accurate estimate of a patient’s financial responsibility at the time of service.
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Roundtable Discussion of Digital Pathology Adoption Across Key Functional Areas: Diagnostic Pathology, Education, and Research
Aired Thursday, October 7, 2021 | FREE — Stream On-Demand
Want to transform your clinical, research, and educational practices with digital pathology? Attend this webinar to learn from healthcare industry experts and get your questions about how and when to implement a digital pathology strategy answered.
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Accelerating Lab Order Connectivity for Measurable ROI: Support for Multi-Lab Networks
Aired Wednesday, October 6, 2021 | FREE — Stream On-Demand
The purpose of this webinar is to explain the current landscape and growth of clinical laboratory testing networks and what it means for clinical, anatomic, specialized and esoteric testing.
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Making Your Business Case for Digital Pathology Adoption
Aired Wednesday, September 15, 2021 | FREE — Stream On-Demand
The purpose of this webinar is to help pathologists and laboratory management build the tools necessary to digitally transform pathology at their institutions.
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Advancements in UTI Testing: A Multi-omics Approach to Maximizing the Flexibility of Your Molecular Testing Laboratory
Aired Wednesday, August 25, 2021 | Stream On-Demand
This webinar will compare the clinical utility of genotypic and phenotypic methods in the treatment of UTIs and describe how a multi-omics approach could be implemented in a laboratory.
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Getting Paid for Genetic Test Claims Toolkit for Clinical Labs: What’s Changing, What’s Not, and What’s Working Best
August, 2021 | $290 — Order Now
Together, this webinar & special report will help you and your lab team better align coding, billing, and collection steps in ways that directly generate more paid genetic test claims, thus bringing in more revenue.
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Ransomware Protection & Response for Clinical Labs, Hospitals, and Pathology Groups: Effective Steps for Protecting Your LIS, EHR, and Other IT from an Encryption Attack
Aired Thursday, August 19, 2021 | Purchase On-Demand
This webinar is a must-listen—not only for you, but for everyone in your hospital, health system, or clinical laboratory that will be working to prevent a ransomware attack or involved in restoring digital services following such an attack.
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Meeting the Challenges of COVID-19 Testing: A User’s Experience Addressing the Unpredictable Testing Demand of Clinical Laboratories with the Scalable, High Throughput Amplitude Solution
Aired Wednesday, July 28, 2021 | Stream On-demand
During this free webinar, two medical laboratory leaders from University of Colorado Hospital will share how they were able to quickly meet the COVID-19 testing demands of their healthcare community through their early adoption of Thermo Fisher’s Amplitude Solution.
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Best Practices for Launching Profitable, Efficient NGS Tests for Hereditary Risk
Aired Wednesday, June 23, 2021 | Stream On-demand
This webinar looks at effective strategies for selecting and implementing appropriate tertiary analysis tools and setting up scalable interpretation workflows, which are critical to the success of clinical NGS programs.
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Clinical-Grade Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Your Pathology Lab: What’s Ready Now, What’s Coming Soon, and How Pathologists Can Profit from Its Use
Aired Thursday, June 17, 2021 | Purchase DVD or on-demand
This webinar aims to help pathologists and lab executives understand artificial intelligence, its many available configurations, what’s on the horizon, and how your lab can profit from it.
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Identifying SARS-CoV-2 Mutations: A Microarray Multiplex Alternative to Next Generation Sequencing or q-RT-PCR for Rapid COVID-19 Variant Identification
Aired Wednesday, June 16, 2021 | Stream on-demand
This webinar explores various options for clinical lab directors, researchers, and public health officials to quickly and cost-effectively identify novel variant strains to mitigate their risks. We will look at which are the most efficient, accurate, and cost-effective solutions.
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Adopting Digital Pathology on a Budget: Getting Started, Knowing What’s Feasible, and Funding Your DP from Overlooked Sources
Aired Thursday, May 27, 2021 | Purchase DVD or on-demand
This webinar aims to help budget-minded pathology groups understand the different paths to digital pathology in daily practice. It will help you understand what’s new and different in digital pathology, whole slide imaging, and automated digital image analysis and how to bring digital pathology to your lab.
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Getting Paid for COVID-19 Test Claims: Prepare for Audits, Maximize Reimbursement, and Navigate New Payer Trends
Aired Wednesday, May 19, 2021 | Purchase DVD or on-demand
There are many reasons why clinical laboratories will either not be paid for COVID testing or, more likely, will be paid, but later face post-payment audits that result in the recoupment of some payments. This webinar will help your lab avoid medical necessity, maximize COVID-19 test reimbursement, and navigate emerging payer trends.
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Strategies for Laboratory Professionals to Drive Lab Stewardship to Reduce Cost, Eliminate Waste, and Improve Patient Care
Aired Wednesday, May 5, 2021 — Stream on-demand
Achieving the aims of higher quality and lower cost depends on the lab community taking a central role in improving effective test utilization. This free webinar explores the implementation of laboratory stewardship to increase effective test use, decrease costs, and improve patient care.
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How Hospitals and Health Systems Can Prepare to Meet a New Blood Culture Contamination Benchmark
Held Wednesday, April 28, 2021 — Stream on-demand
Blood culture contamination significantly impacts patient care and hospital costs in hospitals nationwide. Thirty-five to 50% of positive blood culture results indicating sepsis are false positives due to contamination at the time of collection. This webinar provides an evidence-based solution and best practices to make immediate improvements at their hospitals.
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Life After COVID: Positioning Your Lab for Success in a Post-Pandemic World
Held Wednesday, March 31, 2021 — Stream on-demand
How does your lab begin to prepare itself to succeed in a post-pandemic world? Start your plan now to navigate the transition. Attend this complimentary webinar and hear the ways in which your lab’s current testing can create assets for the future, and how you can best position your lab for success in a post-pandemic environment by leveraging your diagnostic data as a strategic asset.
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Emerging SARS-CoV-2 Mutations: Impact on Thermo Fisher Scientific Assay Performance
Held Wednesday, March 24, 2021 — Stream on-demand
You can immediately download for free and tune into this essential webinar to learn the important clinical implications (epidemiological, prognostic, and predictive) of new COVID-19 “variants of concern,” the importance of early detection of these variants, and steps your lab can take to confidently detect the COVID-19 virus with a very high degree of specificity and sensitivity, given new variants.
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Prepare Your Clinical Lab for Double the Regulatory, Compliance, and Managed Care Risk in 2021: The Simultaneous Need to Deal with COVID-19 and Routine Testing Activities
Held Thursday, December 10, 2020 | $195 — Stream on-demand
Prepare your lab now for what will be a dynamic and fast-changing compliance and regulatory environment in 2021. Hear from nationally-recognized attorneys who will alert you to coming changes and recommend risk-mitigation steps to be taken now to ensure full compliance with all the new developments—both with COVID-19 testing and with standard clinical laboratory services.
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Improving Laboratory Data Exchange and Providing Enhanced Support to Long-Term and Post-Acute Care Customers
Held Wednesday, December 9, 2020 — Stream on-demand
Learn more about how your clinical laboratory can best serve the senior care segment, gain insights into the most effective and efficient ways to connect to and support long-term care customers, hear new ways to grow and retain your lab business.
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Pooled Testing: What Your Lab Needs to Know About Managing a Fall/Winter Surge in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Held Wednesday, December 2, 2020 — Stream on-demand
Gain a clear understanding of when it makes sense to implement pooled testing, specifically for COVID-19, understand the potential benefits of pooled testing, as well as learn the important features to look for when selecting pooled testing workflow technology.
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Taking Control of Your Laboratory Logistics: Best Practices and Innovative Technology for Hospital and Independent Reference Labs
Held Wednesday, October 28, 2020 — Stream on-demand
Gain valuable insights into transformational technologies that are solving one of the most complex logistics challenges that labs face today: controlling the “final mile” in same-day and next-day delivery, and understand why focusing on direct cost savings from carriers as the sole opportunity to improve is not an adequate solution.
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Practical Approaches to Diagnostic RCM Digital Transformation That Can Increase Client Engagement and Profitability
Held Wednesday, October 21, 2020 — Stream on-demand
Gain valuable insights into the practical applications of digital transformation and learn about the most effective ways your lab can address manual and tedious processes, improve patient experience, and boost your financial bottom line.
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Using Evidence-Based Clinical Decision Support to Maximize Your Lab’s Value and Improve Patient Care
Held Wednesday, September 16, 2020 — Stream on-demand
An expanding test catalog, vast literature and broader reach of non-specialist providers such as primary care physicians and physician extenders means that the demand for lab expertise at point of order will continue to increase. Register now and learn about opportunities that should not be missed in order for your lab to show value and positively impact standardization of care—ensuring that patients get the right test at the right time for the right reasons.
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Leveraging IT for Your Laboratory Outreach Strategy During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Held Wednesday, September 2, 2020 — Stream on-demand
Learn how the right suite of applications can empower your lab through technology, help you tailor your outreach program to your lab clients, and as a result improve market share with an efficient and effective outreach strategy.
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Solving Common Hematopathology Testing Challenges with Next-Generation Sequencing
Held Wednesday, August 12, 2020 — Stream on-demand
Learn how next-generation sequencing can complement your existing laboratory workflows while providing a powerful new approach for rapidly generating comprehensive molecular data, as well as enabling your lab to realize greater efficiency, reduced TAT, and increased sensitivity and specificity.
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Start and Scale COVID-19 Testing with Essential Tools that Support the Business and Workflow of Your Lab
Held Wednesday, July 22, 2020 — Stream on-demand
Take away from this webinar a clear understanding of how your lab can rapidly ramp up its COVID-19 testing, offer the right support for the right tests (RT-PCR, serology) and effectively serve physician customers, while maintaining adherence to security and compliance requirements.
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Achieving High Confidence Levels in the Quality and Accuracy of Your Clinical Lab’s Chosen COVID-19 Serology Tests, featuring James Westgard, PhD
Held Thursday, June 11, 2020 — Stream on-demand
Your clinical lab has chosen the COVID-19 serology test it will buy and offer to physicians, patients, and employers. Now your lab team must succeed with the challenging process of validation, in order to have high confidence that the test results are accurate, reproducible, and appropriate for use in patient care. Join us as the Westgards share essential insights and recommendations on the validation and daily production steps your lab should use with its choice of a COVID-19 serology test.
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Quality Issues Your Clinical Laboratory Should Know Before You Buy or Select COVID-19 Serology Tests
Held Thursday, May 21, 2020 — Stream on-demand
Serology Testing of COVID-19 brings new risks for clinical labs because not all COVID-19 tests will produce accurate, reproducible test results. This webinar will help you identify and purchase only the best-performing test kits.
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Streamlined Operations, Increased Revenue, Higher Quality of Care: Conclusive Evidence on the Value of Adopting Digital Pathology in Your Lab
Held Wednesday, May 13, 2020 — Stream on-demand
In this era of increasingly personalized medicine, understanding the transformational power of digital pathology is critical. It also couldn’t be timelier as labs navigate the global pandemic and look to digitization to support their remote workforces.
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How to successfully lead your lab through the legislative and regulatory landscape of COVID-19
Held Wednesday, April 22, 2020 — Stream on-demand
This webinar will provide a comprehensive and action-oriented understanding of legal and regulatory strategies necessary to effectively operate during the COVID-19 emergency. Specific insights that can be used by clinical, HR, financial, and IT leadership to implement compliant and effective actions to address the multiple challenges facing their lab or practice will be covered.
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What Hospital and Health System Labs Need to Know About Operational Support and Logistics During the COVID-19 Outbreak
Held April 1, 2020 — Stream on-demand
Hear the lessons learned by labs who are effectively handling the logistics of the COVID-19 pandemic. Be briefed on the pitfalls others have encountered and how to avoid them, get up-to-speed on the diagnostics, the latest with respect to the regulatory environment, how labs are dealing with limited availability of testing components and transport media, how they are using instrumentation already in place and automating for shorter TATs, and much more.
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Make Your Lab Assessment Ready in 2020: Know the Most-Common Deficiencies in Accreditation and Certification and What to Expect
Held February 25, 2020 | $195 — Stream on-demand
Learn about new deficiencies now being found in labs—and primary pitfalls to avoid—according to the CAP, COLA, and CMS. This is must-know, expert guidance to help your lab take a proactive, preventive role in 2020 to avoid unwelcome publicity, and loss of reimbursement or even certification!
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How to Make Your Lab an Asset Instead of a Liability: What Innovative Health Systems are Doing to Place Their Labs in a Position of Strength
Held February 12, 2020 — Stream on-demand
Take away from this webinar fresh insights into the innovative approaches health systems are employing to ensure their labs are an asset to the health system, rather than a liability. Learn to identify additional value in our lab across key areas , define options to execute and deliver on your lab’s enhanced value, and much more!
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How to Maximize your Laboratory’s Valuation When Preparing for a Sale: Key Steps from a Business and Legal Perspective
Held January 29, 2020 — Stream on-demand
You’ll take away from this webinar an essential grasp of how to create the ideal team of advisors, how to market your lab, how to understand the LOI and due diligence process, the definitive purchase agreement, tax structures, earnouts, what is involved in the closing, and much more!
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What Lab Leaders Need to Know to Prepare for 2020: Bracing for Aggressive Payor Audits, Rigid Enforcement of Fraud and Abuse Laws, and More
Held November 20, 2019 — Order now
In 2020, commercial and government payors will continue to advance programs and policies that impact laboratory operations and financials. If your lab is to effectively adjust to new approaches, it’s crucial that you are informed on the latest trends now!
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When Your Clinical Lab’s Billing Should Move from a Function to a Strategy: Lessons from the Biodesix Experience
Held September 18, 2019 — Stream on-demand
During this free webinar, Biodesix will share key considerations made by their lab leadership, and lessons learned as they tackled their lab’s reimbursement challenges and evaluated the steps and strategies necessary to most effectively optimize billing processes and create new areas of opportunity!
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How to Assess the Potential of Your Hospital or Health Network Lab During This Era of Declining Lab Reimbursement, Integrated Care Models, and Personalized Medicine
Held August 28, 2019 | $195 — Order now
A must-attend for every member of the hospital, health system, or lab team responsible for the research and consideration of emerging laboratory business models such as joint ventures, affiliations, and partnership models. You’ll get answers to the tough questions plus the knowledge necessary to make the decisions right for your laboratory to enhance patient care, and enable fiscal responsibility and ongoing financial success.
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Proposed Changes to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and Quality Payment Program: What You Need to Know to Protect Your Lab’s Revenue and Preserve Profitability
Held August 8, 2019 | $195 — Order now
As a laboratory leader, you need a superior understanding of the scale of the blood culture contamination problem. Hear about why the 3% national benchmark for blood culture contamination is insufficient for patients and their care providers, the profound effect that blood culture contamination has on patient care and lab costs, plus best practices and evidence-based solutions to efficiently and effectively impact this serious issue!
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Evidence-Based Technology to Reduce Blood Culture Contamination, Improve Patient Care and Reduce Costs in Your Clinical Lab or Hospital
Held July 23, 2019 — Stream on-demand
As a laboratory leader, you need a superior understanding of the scale of the blood culture contamination problem. Hear about why the 3% national benchmark for blood culture contamination is insufficient for patients and their care providers, the profound effect that blood culture contamination has on patient care and lab costs, plus best practices and evidence-based solutions to efficiently and effectively impact this serious issue!
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Listen. Learn. Lead. Uncover Ways YOU Can Position Your Lab as a Strategic Pillar of the Healthcare Organization
Held June 19, 2019 — Stream on-demand
Opportunities may be limited to demonstrate your lab’s enterprise value proposition as it relates to the overall strategic direction of the organization. How do you demonstrate your lab’s value in a way in which the healthcare organization leadership understands, or cares? This FREE webinar focuses on strategies that will elevate both your AND your lab’s value within the organization!
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Using Lab 2.0 to Combat Opioid-use Disorder: Lessons Learned and What Comes Next in Improving Patient Outcomes and Cost of Care
June 12, 2019 | $195 — Order now
Learn valuable skills and techniques your lab needs to move beyond Lab 1.0, and to identify measures for new, Clinical Lab 2.0 value-based initiatives! Use these tools to most efficiently assist doctors, pharmacists, and providers to tackle the opioid crisis and more, and to implement responsible, effective, outcomes-based treatment plans.
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Supporting Integrated Patient Care by Moving Tests Out of the Core Lab and into Physicians’ Offices: Lessons from HealthPartners’ Experience
Held May 29, 2019 | $195 — Order now
Gain a vital understanding of how better integrated service for patients can be achieved by moving key tests into the physician’s office, plus best practices from an industry expert on how to implement a plan that keeps results moving and leads to better and faster treatment of patients!
Are You Ready for EKRA? What You Need
to Know Now About How this New Legislation
Affects Your Lab
Held April 24, 2019 – Streaming Download
The scope of EKRA and its related enforcement risk is still unknown. While these issues become clearer, you and your lab staff need the latest updates, and to examine your lab policies and practices to determine if changes are necessary to comply with the new law. Educate yourself and your staff, better understand the law’s complexities, and ensure that your lab stays in compliance and avoids fines and punishment!
Boost Your Advanced Technology Laboratory’s Revenue Through the Effective Use of Data Analytics
Held March 27, 2019 – Streaming Download
Explosion of the molecular and esoteric testing program industry means that a large number of laboratories are now offering these testing services, or are at least considering it.
Using effective data analytics can provide certainty behind your decisions and provide the basis for engagement of senior management on investment opportunities, based on facts—rather than assumptions or a gut feeling—which translates to better and more reliable decisions.
PAMA in 2019: What Labs Need to Know to Collect Data, Report on Time and Avoid $10,000 per day Penalties
Held February 20, 2019 – Streaming Download
Recent changes made to PAMA regulations in the last few months mean that many more hospital and other labs must now report their PAMA private payer price data to Medicare. These revisions to reporting requirements and fees will dramatically affect all laboratories!
In fact, your laboratory or organization faces considerable risk if not compliant with the latest PAMA requirements, with continuing adjustments and proposals to the Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule carrying far-reaching budget implications. The most current understanding of PAMA’s impact is crucial!
Performance Coaching and Management Observations to Improve Productivity and Efficiency: Strengthening the Skills of Management to Execute a Lean Lab Transformation
Held January 16, 2019 – Streaming Download
Performance coaching and management observations are a proven method and a powerful tool to strengthen the knowledge of your staff, encourage their success, and ensure a sustainable and lasting Lean execution in your organization.
The coaching skills you learn during this webinar will enable you to equip your staff with the skills to themselves serve as Lean champions, and to work together with lab leadership to develop the laboratory framework necessary to achieve ongoing and lasting improvement!
Make Your Lab Assessment Ready in 2019: Know the Most-Common Deficiencies in Accreditation and Certification
December 13 @ 1pm EST – Order DVD
Learn about current payer audit, precertification and other trends financially impacting labs, the principal legal theories being pursued by payers, how to implement an effective response to these trends, and much more.
What lab leaders need to know to prepare for evolving payer behavior, audits, programs and policies
Learn about current payer audit, precertification and other trends financially impacting labs, the principal legal theories being pursued by payers, how to implement an effective response to these trends, and much more.
The Pathway to Driving Valuation for Your Laboratory: Your Roadmap to Achieving Success, and How to Sustain Growth Despite a Changing Lab Environment
Regardless of whether your lab is in a buying or selling mode—or just preparing for what the future may hold—this timely webinar will provide you with the essential insights you need to increase revenue and operating margin, and effectively maximize your laboratory’s value!
Laboratory Certification and Accreditation: The Joint Commission, COLA Discuss the Most Common Deficiencies and How Labs Should Prepare for Coming Changes
This webinar is the second of a two-part series. Compliance with CLIA and other regulations is getting tougher and more complex. Many labs report that assessments and CLIA inspections of their labs are becoming more rigorous, which has sent them scrambling to respond to the unexpected deficiencies identified during these inspections. Featuring accreditation experts from The Joint Commission and COLA, you’ll hear about their organizations’ list of the Top 10 Deficiencies identified during lab assessments over the past year, and how to prepare your clinical lab stay up-to-date with the latest developments!
Laboratory Certification and Accreditation: CAP & A2LA Discuss the Most Common Deficiencies and How Labs Should Prepare for Coming
Compliance with CLIA and other regulations is getting tougher and more complex. Many labs report that assessments and CLIA inspections of their labs are becoming more rigorous, which has sent them scrambling to respond to the unexpected deficiencies identified during these inspections.
To help CLIA-certified clinical laboratories stay up-to-date with the latest developments, Dark Daily is presenting two special webinars that will give participants access to representatives from all four primary accrediting bodies with deeming authority from CMS to accredit clinical laboratories to the requirements of CLIA.
This webinar, part one of the two-part series, features accreditation experts from the CAP and A2LA. Hear their organization’s list of the Top 10 Deficiencies identified during lab assessments over the past year, and how to prepare your lab!
Newly-Available Medicare Utilization and Price Data for Pathology: Why It’s Important to your Lab and How to Use it to Boost Revenue and Pathologist Compensation
This is a must-attend session for every pathologist and practice administrator! It deals with the reality of today’s tough marketplace for pathology services and will deliver the knowledge you need to help your lab preserve revenue, enhance pathologist income, and expand market share. Learn best strategies on how other pathology practices are dealing with payer prior-authorization programs, successful navigation of payer audits, and managing narrow networks and much more!
Using Diagnostic Management Teams to Add Value with Clinical Laboratory Tests and Pathologists’ Expertise
Diagnostic Management Teams are gaining respect as an effective way for pathologists and clinical laboratory leaders to engage clinicians in ways that directly improve patient outcomes while avoiding unnecessary costs. Best of all, such teams are an effective way for medical laboratories to contribute value as reimbursement shifts to global payment, capitation, or other forms of value-based remuneration to providers. The power of a diagnostic management team (DMT) comes from the fact that it is organized specifically to improve the diagnostic accuracy of a specific disease or health condition. Each DMT brings together pathologists, other lab experts, and physicians with clinical expertise in that field to interpret patient-specific test results in a precise clinical context that includes relevant data in that patient’s medical record. Interest in DMTs is so high that last year’s first annual Diagnostic Management Team Conference in Galveston, Texas, was completely sold out, with more than 250 attendees from throughout the United States and several foreign countries. Recognizing the high interest, as well as the high value, in DMTs, Dark Daily is presenting a special new webinar.
Tougher Lab Regulations and New Legal Issues in 2018: More Frequent Payer Audits, Problems with Contract Sales Reps, Increased Liability for CLIA Lab Directors, Proficiency Testing Violations, and More
Looking forward into 2018, Medicare Part B clinical laboratory price cuts are not the only big story. Other significant threats can upend your laboratory, such as tougher payer audits with higher recovery demands or new federal and state regulatory rules that increase the personal liability of CLIA lab directors and lab executives. The list of regulatory, compliance and managed care threats that must be addressed by clinical labs and pathology group practices in 2018 is lengthy. Each comes with the potential of government sanctions, exclusion from provider networks, large recoupment demands, and greater risk for individual liability of lab directors and lab managers that can include jail time, sizeable fines, and exclusion from federal health programs. As 2018 fast approaches, these are reasons why savvy clinical lab executives, pathologists serving as medical directors of CLIA-licensed labs, and their financial and legal advisors need to come up to speed on the most serious regulatory, compliance, and managed care contracting issues confronting all labs today. Order this webinar now for the critical information you need!
Unique Ways to Partner with Payers to Be Paid for Clinically-Necessary Tests: How to Avoid the Denial Loop
The current insurance reimbursement system for laboratory testing has significant issues, such as decision making that is too far removed from the patient, overprocessing (including dual systems of preauthorization), and tremendous variation between insurance companies regarding medical, administrative, and payment policies. These and other problems lead to conflicts between insurers, health systems and patients. During this all-new webinar, you will get important updates about the current issues plaguing laboratory testing insurance reimbursement systems, and from an expert faculty, learn about specific collaborative strategies that provide potential solutions for your clinical lab.
Primary Diagnosis with Digital Pathology Systems and Whole Slide Images: What Every Pathologist Needs to Know, Why It Will Be Disruptive, and How Innovative Pathology Groups Are Already Making Money with DP
Speedy adoption of digital pathology systems and WSI can give your pathology group considerable competitive advantage. It can mean stronger relationships with referring physicians, more case referrals, expanded market share, increased revenue, and greater pathologist compensation for you and your colleagues. In these financially-stressful times, those are wonderful outcomes and they do help preserve and increase your annual income. That’s why it’s important for you to order this indispensable webinar today!
Deep Medicare Fee Cuts Are Coming to your Clinical Laboratory in 157 Days: What You Must Do Now, Why Congress Might Intervene, and Action Steps to Protect Your Lab’s Financial Integrity
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are preparing to implement deep cuts to the Part B Clinical Laboratory Test Fee Schedule. Those cuts happen on January 1, 2018. During this webinar, Lâle White of XIFIN will share the findings from her company’s analysis of the 300 million lab test claims that they process each year. This is the actual private payer price data XIFIN’s clients reported to CMS earlier this year. White will help you understand how CMS will use this data to cut the prices for specific tests, along with how your lab can model its test mix to predict how the lab fee cuts will lower your lab’s revenue next year. Next, Julie Scott Allen, who represents NILA, will give you an up-to-the-minute report on how the clinical lab profession is negotiating with CMS to moderate the coming lab fee cuts. She will also provide you with an update on issues in Congress that affect clinical laboratories, including efforts by leading elected officials to change how CMS is preparing to use the PAMA rule to cut Part B lab test fees.
Simple, Swift Approaches to Lab Test Utilization Management: Proven Ways for Your Clinical Laboratory to Use Data and Collaborations to Add Value
Lab test utilization is probably the number one topic in the clinical lab industry today, and this important webinar has much to teach. Get the firsthand insights your lab needs to provide care pathways that improve test utilization, and to identify the right elements to measure so as to demonstrate improved patient care and ultimately lower the overall cost of care.
Preparing Your Lab Company or Hospital for Big Changes in Revenue Recognition Standards and Audits by Your CPA Firm
There’s a major challenge about to confront every public and private lab company that prepares its financial statements according to generally-accepted accounting principles (GAAP). It is the substantial change in revenue recognition standards and this change may cause a measurable downward adjustment in your lab company’s reported financial results. This is the first webinar learning opportunity that explores the requirements of FASB ASC 606-Revenue Recognition Standard as it applies to clinical laboratory companies, diagnostic firms, and other types of molecular, genetic, and pharmacogenetics testing enterprises. The requirement becomes effective on a rolling timeline that starts in 2017. Many lab company executives and their accounting teams have yet to take necessary steps to comply with the new requirements of Rule 606. There are also a substantial number of lab executives whose private lab company follows GAAP in their financial reporting, but who remain unaware of the new requirements of Rule 606. Don’t be one of the lab executives to make a costly mistake—failure to comply in a timely manner can have major consequences—learn more about this indispensable webinar!
Delivering Patient-Centered Lab Testing Services: Elevating the Lab Order with Patient-Centric Repository and New Informatics Tools to Increase Lab Revenue and Support Clinicians for Better Clinical Outcomes
It’s now possible for your medical laboratory to increase revenue specifically because your lab helps physicians achieve better patient outcomes! This is great news particularly if your lab is seeking ways to offset price cuts and shrinking budgets. The secret is to offer patient-centric lab testing services. Great news is that becoming a patient-centric laboratory is not complicated, nor is it time-consuming. Each step forward in becoming a patient-centered lab can generate substantial amounts of new revenue. Learn more about this webinar, and gain indispensable insights to help you implement this powerful trend that can contribute not only to greater revenue, but also to improved reimbursements at your lab.
What Molecular and Genetic Testing Labs Need to Know to Succeed with Commercialization of Their Precision Medicine Products
Confronted with shrinking budgets and falling revenue, lab managers are doing the rational thing by putting more resources into cutting costs, improving staff productivity, and reducing errors. But many approaches to reducing a lab’s cost are band-aids—temporary ‘solutions’ to deeper problems that cost the lab big dollars, and which go unrecognized and unmeasured. Find out what may not be working in your lab, and hear from the experts the secrets of delivering high quality, while achieving significant cost savings!