Only a week after announcing several revisions to the demonstration design in response to public comments on the draft bidder’s package, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the first site of the Medicare Clinical Laboratory Services Competitive Bidding Demonstration. The selected Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) is San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, California (San Diego County), which is the 16th-largest MSA in the United States with a population of 3,083,038.

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November 2007 - Table of Contents

LIR November 2007 (full PDF issue)

San Diego Is First Site for Lab Competitive Bidding Demo Project

Vista Equity Partners Closes on Purchase of Misys Diagnostic Systems

Blogs Keep Busy Labs Updated

CAP, ACLA Call for Public Disclosure of "Medically Unlikely Edits"

Orchid Cellmark to Buy New Orleans DNA Testing Lab for $8.6M

Surviving the Price War: Lab Experts Weigh In

G-2 Award Winners Honored at Lab Institute

Lab Stocks Up 19% Year to Date

G-2 Welcomes New Editor Julie McDowell

The Impact of Falling Reimbursement