2026 Bulletins

• Component Allergen-Specific IgE Testing
  April 1, 2026
• Hydrogen and Methane, Breath Test Change
  March 3, 2026
• Procollagen 1 intact N-terminal propeptide (P1NP) Effective
  January 7, 2026
• Phosphatidylethanol (PEth) Testing Update
  December 17, 2025
• Meconium Drug Screen Testing Update
  December 3, 2025
• New Blood Bank Requirement for Transfusion Specimens
  November 30, 2025
• Primary Reference Lab Change to Quest Diagnostics
  November 19, 2025
• Reference Lab Transition to Quest Diagnostics 11/19/2025 Go-Live (Quest Conversion Crosswalk)
  November 19, 2025
• Hypercoagulable Testing Reduction
  October 29, 2025
• C. difficile GDH/Toxin Antigen testing reporting frequency change (Royal Oak only)
  October 14, 2025
• De-Implementation of Fecal Occult Blood Testing: Adult Emergency Room (ED) and Inpatient
  October 1, 2025
• Amnisure ROM Testing
  October 1, 2025
• Discontinuation of Pearl Top Tube Utilization
  October 1, 2025
• New MRSA PCR Test Order
  September 3, 2025
• Bone Marrow Culture Ordering and Collection
  July 30, 2025
• PD-L1 22C3 Immunohistochemistry (Lab Only)
  July 30, 2025
• Hematology Resulting Updates
  July 30, 2025
• CSF Specimens on Suspect Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) Patients
  July 14, 2025
• Aldosterone & Renin Testing
  July 2, 2025
• Device Recall: Bordetella pertussis/parapertussis PCR
  June 24, 2025
• Updated Inpatient and Emergency Center Urinalysis Order and Collection
  June 4, 2025
• Critical Value Cut-Offs for Arterial and Venous Cord Blood Gases
  May 15, 2025
• Lactic Acid Updates
  May 5, 2025
• Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR) Stability Awareness
  April 28, 2025
• Discontinuation of Lamellar Body Count Order (LBC)
  March 12, 2025
• Pancreatic Elastase and H. pylori Antigen
  March 12, 2025
• Gift of Life Michigan (GOLM) COVID Testing Update
  March 12, 2025
• Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) – Testing Update
  March 12, 2025
• Hemoglobinopathy Evaluation Reference Range Changes
  February 24, 2025
• Huma Papillomavirus (HPV)-Testing Update
  February 3, 2025
• Improved Molecular Vaginitis Screen
  December 4, 2024
• PTH/Calcium Update
  November 6, 2024
• Discontinuation of ACE Genotyping for Coronary Risk Assessment
  November 4, 2024
• Updates to the Respiratory Pathogen Panel Test
  October 28, 2024
• Bone Marrow Culture Collection
  October 24, 2024
• Lipid & Vitamin D Autocancel Policy for Medicare Patients
  September 19, 2024
• Discontinuation of Respiratory Pathogen Panel Testing for Outpatients
  August 29, 2024
• Chemistry Assays Update
  July 21, 2024
• Discontinuation of Certain Prenatal Screening Tests at Corewell Health East
  July 21, 2024
• Outreach Testing Optimization – Specimen Retention Update
  June 17, 2024
• Blood Gas Panels Update
  June 11, 2024
• Group A Strep, NAA and Staph Aureus/MRSA PCR Collection Device Change
  June 3, 2024
• Discontinuation of Rapid Intrapartum Group B Strep Testing
  June 3, 2024
• Conventional Pap Smear Discontinuation
  May 1, 2024
• BioPlex Epstein Barr Virus Antibody Testing
  April 2, 2024
• Change to 5-Fluorocytosine Therapeutic Range
  March 12, 2024
• Reflex Mismatch Repair (MMR) Immunohistochemistry for New Diagnosis of Rectal Cancer
  March 11, 2024
• Corewell Health East Laboratory Microbiology Consolidation
  March 1, 2024
• Bio‐Rad BioPlex Go‐Live (Autoimmune & Infectious Disease Antibody Testing)
  February 6, 2024
• Solid Tumor 15 Genes Panel by NGS
  February 6, 2024
• Glucose Reference Range Change
  January 9, 2024