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PathGroup Selected by NIH to Become RADx Program “Mega-Lab” for COVID-19 Testing

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – (September 2, 2020) – PathGroup, one of the largest private providers of pathology, clinical and molecular laboratory services in the United States, today announced the award of a funding grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx SM) program. PathGroup will utilize the funds granted by the NIH to expand its high-throughput COVID-19 testing laboratory, becoming one of the nation’s “mega-labs” with the capability of performing up to 80,000 SARS-CoV-2 tests per day for COVID-19, with results expected to be delivered within 24 hours.

The RADxSM initiative supports the development, production scale-up, and deployment of accurate, rapid SARS-CoV-2 tests across the country. The RADx-Advanced Technology Platforms (RADx-ATP) program assists in the expansion of labs that can significantly scale the number of COVID-19 tests that can be performed each day in the United States.

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PathGroup Selected as Early Access Partner for Launch of Illumina’s Sequencing-Based COVID-19 Diagnostic Test

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – (June 23, 2020) – PathGroup, one of the largest private providers of pathology, clinical and molecular laboratory services in the United States, today announced that the company has been selected as an early access partner for the launch of Illumina’s new sequencing-based COVID-19 test, COVIDSeq™. COVIDSeq accommodates more than 3,000 test samples per run, allowing for a substantial increase in testing capacity.

Illumina, a global leader in sequencing technologies, received the first Emergency Use Authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a sequencing-based test on June 9, 2020. COVIDSeq is being rolled out via a limited number of early access sites around the world including PathGroup’s comprehensive 140,000 square foot Nashville-area laboratory.

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PathGroup Announces New COVID-19 Testing Option

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – (June 1, 2020) – PathGroup, one of the largest private providers of pathology, clinical and molecular laboratory services in the United States, today announced the availability of a new, minimally-invasive nasal swab collection option as a part of its comprehensive SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) testing program.

Many current molecular diagnostic COVID-19 tests rely on a nasopharyngeal (NP) swab, which can cause discomfort for patients during the collection process. The new nasal swab collection option is more comfortable for patients and easier for healthcare providers to administer.

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Test Available: SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Antibody

Effective May 27, 2020, PathGroup is pleased to announce the availability of a new serologic test for human antibodies to SARS-Cov-2, the viral pathogen associated with COVID-19 (PathGroup Test Code: COVIDAB). On May 3, 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the Roche Elecsys® SARS-CoV-2 antibody test. The test is for the qualitative detection of total antibodies (including IgG, IgA and IgM) to SARS-CoV-2 in serum from individuals with prior COVID-19 infection. This test may aid in identification of patients with an adaptive immune response to SARS‑CoV‑2, indicating recent or prior infection to the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

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Test Update: Ova/Parasite Exam Specimen Requirement Change

Effective June 8, 2020, the following Ova/Parasite tests will change specimen collection containers. For all Ova/Parasite orders placed on or after June 8, Total-Fix collection vials are required for the collection of stool needed for testing. All previous specimen containers will be discontinued. There will be no change in billed CPT codes.

 

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Test Update: HLA-B27 Test Code Change

Effective March 16,2020, PathGroup will discontinue HLA-B27 DNA Typing (Test Code: HLABP) and transition to the clinically equivalent HLA-B27 DNA Typing test (Test Code: HB27D).

 

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