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COUNT ME AS ONE WHO IS NOT SURPRISED THAT SEVERAL of healthcare’s billion-dollar corporations have posted huge losses. I may be at the age of retirement, and I might be guilty of values and ethics often labeled as “old fashioned,” but I am possessed with common sense. Those of our clients carefully following news stories […]
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“SHOOTING FISH IN THE BARREL” MAY BE A GOOD METAPHOR TO DESCRIBE what can soon happen to the profession of pathology. This issue of THE DARK REPORT covers several important stories on laboratory management, with direct consequences to pathologists. First, the ISO 9001 certification of the Nichols Institute division of Quest Diagnostics Incorporated (see pages
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IT MAY SURPRISE MANY PEOPLE TO LEARN THAT THIS YEAR’S Executive War College in New Orleans attracted registrants from New Zealand and Germany. What may be even more surprising is the reason they traveled from overseas to come to this particular program. Our editor met with them and learned some intriguing and useful things that I
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THIS ISSUE OF THE DARK REPORT IS A GREAT EXAMPLE of how marketplace developments shape what we write. After the Executive War College in New Orleans, I spoke with our Editor, Robert Michel. We discussed his impressions from the collective information of 26 presentations. We also discussed what he had learned from conversations with the attendees,
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THIS IS WRITTEN FOR BOTH LABORATORIANS COMING TO THE DARK REPORT’S Executive War College in New Orleans next week as well as those not attending. As I look at the registration list, I see a diverse range of attendees. Registered for this year’s event are CEOs of public laboratories and owners of independent commercial laboratories. Hospital
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IT MAY BE PREMATURE OF OUR EDITOR TO PREDICT that increasing numbers of HMOs will choose to withdraw from state Medicaid programs during the next 24 months. (See pages 4-6.) But I do think he is on target with his observations that hospitals, physicians, and insurance companies will not let government healthcare regulators push them
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STORIES IN THIS ISSUE REVEAL HOW PERVASIVE THE TRENDS of regionalization and consolidation are. Whether one agrees or disagrees that managed care is the future of healthcare, it is obvious that regionalization and consolidation will continue to transform healthcare. Consolidation transformed the commercial laboratory industry. Consolidation is now transforming hospitals, directly impacting hospital- based laboratories.
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I ENCOURAGE YOU TO CAREFULLY READ THE STORY about the financial woes of managed care plans in this issue. After virtually every big HMO company reported sizeable losses for 1997, Kaiser Permanente joined the club with a $270 million loss. Following years of soaring profits, it appears that health insurers are about to enter a sustained
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JANUARY WAS A WILD MONTH FOR COMPANIES OFFERING automated cytology products. January opened with new CPT codes for automated cytology procedures taking effect. January closed with news that the FDA’s advisory panel, convened on January 28, recommended approval of the PMA supplement of NeoPath, Inc.’s automated cytology instrument for primary screening of Pap smears. Do not
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