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2022 Ranking of the World’s Top 12 IVD Corporations
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX, No. 11 – July 31, 2023 Issue
WHILE THE TOP FOUR IN VITRO DIAGNOSTICS (IVD) MANUFACTURERS kept their collective hold on the market compared to 2021, the big surprise was that Thermo Fisher Scientific’s…
Hospital Lab Outreach Selloffs Continue with Labcorp as Buyer
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX, No. 11 – July 31, 2023 Issue
OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS, Labcorp has shaken up the hospital laboratory market in the Pacific Northwest, particularly as it concerns lab outreach services. …
HCCI Reports Higher Prices for Hospital Outreach Tests
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, No. 11 – July 31, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: It’s another shot across the bows to hospital and health systems that use inpatient test prices when billing health insurers for outpatient/outreach lab tests. In its report, the Health Care Cost Institute documents how these hospital l…
Kaiser Acquires Geisinger Health in Value-Based Deal
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, No. 11 – July 31, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: This blockbuster combination of two respected integrated delivery networks (IDNs) caught the hospital industry by surprise. Post-closing, Kaiser and Geisinger will have combined revenue…
Kaiser-Geisinger Acquisition Sets Stage for More Deals
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, No. 11 – July 31, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Even as experts were predicting more consolidation among multi-hospital health systems at the Executive War College in New Orleans last month, acquisition of Geisinger Health by Kaiser …
Major Events on Horizon to Reshape Lab Market
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, No. 11 – July 31, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Speakers at last month’s Executive War College discussed a range of significant trends and changes happening today in the U.S. healthcare system. Two of the most important trends are …
AACC Changes Name to ADLM, Seeking to Broaden Appeal
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX, No. 11 – July 31, 2023 Issue
HOPING TO BROADEN ITS INFLUENCE IN THE LABORATORY INDUSTRY, the American Association of Clinical Chemistry (AACC) …
Quest, Labcorp Both Report Growth in Base Lab Business
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX, No. 11 – July 31, 2023 Issue
DURING THE LATEST QUARTERLY EARNINGS REPORTS from Quest Diagnostics and Labcorp, it was largely “same old, same old” as base business continues to improve post-pandemic, while C…
Quest Acquires Lab Outreach from New York-Presbyterian
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX, No. 11 – July 31, 2023 Issue
IT’S THE LATEST DEAL THAT AFFIRMS STATEMENTS by executives of the two largest national labs that hospital CEOs have a growing interest in selling their laboratory outreach businesses. Recently, Quest Diagnostics announced that it will take over the labor…
IVD Firms Prepare for OTC, Home Test Market Expansion
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, No. 11 – July 31, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: With public interest in home testing growing, some IVD manufacturers are preparing to serve a fast-expanding market for over-the-counter and at-home tests. IVD firms are banking on the…
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