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Lab Jobs: A Talk about Cytogenetics

Lab Jobs: Q&A with a Medical Lab Technician

Fertility, the Biological Clock, and the AMH Hormone

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

A Rare Opportunity: ARUP Bioinformatics Scientist Chosen to Speak at AMP Conference

Keith Simmon is part of ARUP’s 15-member bioinformatics team, which supports next-generation sequencing testing.

Keith Simmon returned to ARUP in March 2014 to join the bioinformatics team and shortly after received his PhD in biomedical informatics. Recently, he was selected to speak at the Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) annual conference this November in Salt Lake City.

Come Wildfire or Visiting Dignitary, Safely Shipping Human Specimens

ARUP Laboratories’ Transportation department is tasked with safe delivery of 50,000 specimens to the lab and into processing each day, from 50 percent of the nation’s university medical centers, pediatric hospitals, and teaching hospitals. That involves planning for weather (such as hurricanes and tropical storms) and other delays, and taking quick action.