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Surgical pathology (Level IV, code 88305) continues to rank as the highest-volume pathology procedure paid under Medicare Part B. For the calendar-year 2008, this code had approximately 18 million allowed services and $1.18 billion in allowed Medicare charges—which is three times more than any other single procedure on the top 100 list.

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March 2010 - Table of Contents

DTTR March 2010 (Full PDF Issue)

IVD Companies, Labs Expand Personalized Medicine Plays

SACGHS Finalizes Recommendations on Gene Patents

Navigenics Raises $18 Million from Investors Including P&G

CancerGuide Diagnostics Partners with LabCorp, Looks to Raise $10.5 Million

Agilent Divests Clinical Diagnostics Business Hycor Biomedical

With Focus on Clinical Toxicology and Forensic Testing, NMS Labs Succeeds as a ‘Lab’s Lab’

Special Focus: Personalized Medicine: Biomarker Could Help Treatment Selection for Rheumatoid Arthritis

Special Focus: Personalized Medicine: Geisinger and TGen Partner for Personalized Medicine Initiative

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Special Focus: Personalized Medicine: JAMA Study Finds Genetic Links to Lung Cancer Survival

Special Focus: Personalized Medicine: Genomic Health Introduces Colon Cancer Test

Surgical Pathology Topped $1 Billion in Part B Charges in ’08

Myriad Genetics Inks Deal with Mammography Reporting System to Identify Potential Patients

Medco Health Services Acquires DNA Direct

IVD Stocks Slip 4%; Cepheid, Sequenom Join Index

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Vanderbilt Launches CardioDX Test for Coronary Artery Disease