March 2025

Quest Acquires ‘Select Assets’ of Fresenius Medical Care

FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AND QUEST DIAGNOSTICS AGREED TO A DEAL in which Quest will provide laboratory testing services for the latter’s dialysis clinics in the United States. Separately, Quest Diagnostics will acquire “select assets” of Spectra Laboratories, a wholly owned FMC subsidiary that currently provides those services. FMC is one of the two dominant providers […]

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Medical Robotics Developer Says It’s Time to Transform Phlebotomy

Laboratory Equipment / Robert Michel

“Our innovation aims to make blood draws fully autonomous, safer, faster, more accurate, less painful, and more accessible.” —Brian Joseph, co-founder, Vitestro CEO SUMMARY: Phlebotomy and collection of veinous blood is one important procedure in clinical laboratory testing that continues to be primarily a manual process. That is about to change. Netherlands-based Vitestro has obtained

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Some Health Plans Drop Deductibles as Response to New Consumerism

Clinical Laboratory / Robert Michel

It may surprise many pathologists and clinical laboratory administrators to learn that one major health insurer’s best-selling plan has only copays and no deductible, no coinsurance, and no cost-shifting! That plan is Surest, a group plan offered by UnitedHealthcare in recent years. Becker’s Payer Issues wrote, “In 2022, the payer introduced Surest, a deductible-free offering

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March 10, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News

Late Breaking Lab News / Robert Michel

Genetic testing is coming to a cruise ship! The New York Post reported that the MV Narrative will be launched this year by Storylines. CruiseCritic describes this vessel as “a residential ship that will create a floating ‘neighborhood’ for a community of up to 1,000 people, including families … With 547 ‘residences,’ owners buy into

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Upcoming Executive War College to Cover Important Lab Trends

Laboratory Information Systems / Robert Michel

New developments now changing the landscape in health-care and the clinical laboratory market will be addressed at the upcoming 30th Annual Executive War College on Diagnostic, Clinical Laboratory, and Pathology Management that happens on April 29-30, 2025, in New Orleans. That includes the ongoing uncertainty about the fate of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA)

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