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Clinical lab Radeas is paying $11.6 million to settle allegations that it submitted false claims to Medicare for unnecessary drug testing, the Justice Department said March 31.

Richard Reid, co-owner of Bellevue, Wash.-based Northwest Physicians Laboratory, was convicted of five felonies in connection with a kickback scheme for medical testing, the Justice Department said March 30.

Positive drug test rates for the U.S. workforce hit a 20-year high in 2021, according to a Quest Diagnostics study.

Healthcare has grappled with a shortage of sodium citrate blood collection tubes — those with a light blue top — since June 2021. But according to an FDA update earlier this year, all blood collection tubes are now in short…

Denton, Texas-based PCR clinical lab HealthTrackRx opened a location in Marietta, Ga.

In February, CMS suspended Chicago-based O'Hare Clinical Lab Services' license to operate, and cut off payments to the lab because of sanctions cited against it, The Washington Post reported March 24.

The College of American Pathologists recently awarded accreditation to Austin, Texas-based blood lab Babson Diagnostics and Lubbock, Texas-based UMC Health's lab.

COVID-19 tests generally fall into two categories: rapid antigen tests, and slower but more accurate polymerase chain reaction tests.

Researchers from Myongji University in Seoul, South Korea, have created a lab test they say detects cancer by using tiny roundworms, American Chemical Society reported March 20.

Labcorp is offering a new test designed to detect and quantify unintentional gluten consumption.