The founders of three medical labs in Texas pleaded guilty in a $300 million healthcare fraud scheme, the Justice Department said April 20.
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Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic began construction on a $49 million lab expansion, ABC affiliate KSTP reported April 19.
Quest Diagnostics appointed five executives, with one filling a new role for the company.
Diagnostic lab sales representative Steven Monaco was convicted on 18 counts for leading a $4.6 million fraud and kickback scheme, the Justice Department said April 19.
Genetic testing company Fulgent Genetics has agreed to acquire pathology lab Inform Diagnostics for $170 million.
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A former lab technician who was fired from Covington, Ky.-based Gravity Diagnostics won $450,000 in a jury trial for a suit that alleged the lab discriminated against him over a mental health condition, The New York Times reported April 17.
Medical technology company Pathware named former Veran Medical Technologies executive TJ Meyer its new CEO and landed $7 million in series A funding.
Pathologist pay jumped nearly 6 percent from 2021 to 2022, according to Medscape's "Physician Compensation Report 2022," released April 15.
The FDA granted emergency use authorization to InspectIR for its COVID-19 Breathalyzer, the first COVID-19 breath test, CNN reported April 15.
Premiere Medical Laboratory Services in Greenville, S.C., earned accreditation by the College of American Pathologists.