Laboratory Employees Anonymously Select BioReference amongst 500 Other Large Companies ELMWOOD PARK, NJ, April 17, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — BioReference Laboratories, Inc., an OPKO Health Company (NYSE:OPK), is pleased to announce it has been recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Large Employers of 2019. This list includes 500 large companies, and BioReference is one […]
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MIAMI, May 18, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — OPKO Health, Inc.(Nasdaq:OPK) today announced that Novitas Solutions, Inc. issued a draft local coverage determination (LCD) for the 4Kscore test®. The draft LCD is a proposed non-coverage policy for the 4Kscore test for Medicare and, prior to its effectiveness, is subject to a public comment period ending July 5, 2018. OPKO plans to submit comments during […]
Study of 11,506 men shows that healthy men with an abnormal PSA and a low 4Kscore test result can be safely monitored rather than undergo prostate biopsy MIAMI, March 16, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — OPKO Health, Inc.(NASDAQ:OPK) today announced that data from a landmark study of the 4Kscore® test entitled, “Twenty-year Risk of Prostate Cancer Death by Midlife Prostate-specific Antigen and a Panel […]
MIAMI, May 18, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — OPKO Health, Inc.(NASDAQ:OPK), announces that data from a prospective study conducted at Veteran Affairs (VA) hospitals confirming the 4Kscore test’s ability to accurately predict aggressive prostate cancer were presented in a podium presentation on May 16, 2017 at the 112thAmerican Urological Association (AUA) Annual Meeting in Boston. The study entitled, “An Independent, Multi-Institutional, Prospective […]
MIAMI, March 07, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — OPKO Health, Inc. (NASDAQ:OPK) announces that GenPath Women’s Health, a business unit of OPKO Health subsidiary BioReference Laboratories, will offer ClariTest™, a non-invasive prenatal test (NIPT) initially to be performed at Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) on the Verifi™ platform. This platform utilizes massively parallel sequencing technology to screen for trisomies 13, 18, 21 and sex chromosome abnormalities, with […]
MIAMI–(BUSINESS WIRE)– OPKO Health, Inc. (NYSE: OPK) today announced that senior management will discuss recent draft local coverage determinations by certain Medicare Administrative Contractors for OPKO’s 4Kscore® test at the Jefferies Healthcare Conference in New York City on Thursday, June 9, 2016 at 11:30 AM (EDT). OPKO previously announced that Novitas Solutions issued a positive draft local coverage determination proposing to establish reimbursement coverage for patients with PSA […]
MIAMI–(BUSINESS WIRE)– OPKO Health, Inc. (NYSE:OPK) (“OPKO” or the “Company”) announces that Novitas Solutions has issued a draft local coverage determination for the 4Kscore® Test, the only blood test that accurately identifies an individual patient’s risk for high-grade, aggressive prostate cancer. Novitas Solutions is a Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) for Medicare jurisdictions L and H, with responsibility for nearly 10 million Medicare beneficiaries in New […]
MIAMI–(BUSINESS WIRE)– OPKO Health, Inc. (NYSE:OPK) today announced the decision of the European Association of Urology (EAU) Prostate Cancer Guidelines Panel to include the 4Kscore® Test in the 2016 EAU Guidelines for Prostate Cancer. The panel concluded that the 4Kscore, as a blood test with greater specificity over the PSA test, is indicated for use prior to a first prostate biopsy […]
