Press Releases

ARUP Wellness Center Wins Two Awards

Wellness staff members Curtis Bell, Shelby Firouzi, Natalie Sargent, Raven Berman, and Kelly Gibbons stand with new awards from Utah Worksite Wellness Conference.

In May, the ARUP Wellness Center won the Platinum Healthy Worksite Award and the Innovation Award for Physical Wellbeing at the Utah Worksite Wellness Conference.

New Technology Diagnoses Pneumonia Caused by Previously Undetected Pathogens

Metagenomics test identified pathogens missed by conventional lab tests in 44 percent of immunocompromised children treated for respiratory infection

Chronic Kidney Disease and Improving Diagnoses: ARUP Teams Up to Identify Patients at Risk

Thirty million people have chronic kidney disease (CKD), but only 3.6 million know they’ve got the disease. With few early symptoms, people may not realize they have the disease until their kidney function is significantly depleted. That can be fatal without dialysis or a kidney transplant.

One in three American adults is at risk for chronic kidney disease as a result of hypertension or diabetes. CKD

ARUP Statement Regarding PAMA

Last Friday, Sept 22, 2017, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the proposed CY 2018 Medicare payment rates for laboratory tests on the Part B Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule (CLFS). 

ARUP will be conducting a careful assessment, but upon first review, CMS outlines drastic cuts to many high volume routine test rates currently performed by numerous hospitals, small community and critical access hospital labs, physician office labs (POL), and nursing homes that will be