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Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark

Pathology PPM Attempts Public Offering Of Shares

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / By R. Lewis Dark

CEO SUMMARY: AmeriPath’s efforts to become a public company make it the most visible management experiment in the pathology world today. Already considered controversial by many pathologists, should AmeriPath successfully pull off its proposed initial public stock offering, it will assume a leadership position in the industry which cannot be ignored. PATHOLOGY MAY SOON have …

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Warning Ahead: Investigation And Litigation

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / By R. Lewis Dark

NEWS THAT PRIVATE INSURERS FILED A MAJOR LAWSUIT against SmithKline Beecham last Thursday confirms something I’ve wondered about for several years. What would be the private insurer’s perspective on the same laboratory billing and reimbursement practices which triggered federal settlements with major laboratories? Now we know. The opinion of private insurance companies is that they were …

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Clinical Lab Industry A Mature Marketplace

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / By R. Lewis Dark

In our role as the lab industry’s management “futurist” we spend a lot of time pondering the meaning of individual events in cities throughout the United States. One common trait of successful organizations is their ability to accurately translate such events into a strategic plan which correctly predicts the future… and positions their company to …

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Do You Want To Follow Or Lead?

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / By R. Lewis Dark

How many of our clients are ready to lead the industry? This issue of THE DARK REPORT provides you with an opportunity to move ahead of your competitors and gain a critical advantage. I am referring to the emergence of physician practice management (PPM) companies. As you will read, we predict these PPMs will become …

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Where Are “Laboratories Of The Future?”

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / By R. Lewis Dark

At this year’s Executive War College in New Orleans last May 20-21, there was plenty of talk about the radical changes laboratories are undergoing. But one question went unanswered: If laboratories must change, what should they look like after they change? Our Editor, Robert Michel, criss-crosses the country looking for laboratory models which represent the …

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Introducing The “Three Blood Brothers”

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / By R. Lewis Dark

How many of you remember the “Seven Sisters” or the “Big Six?” These were terms used by the business press and media to describe the seven major oil companies (Standard Oil, Gulf, Atlantic Richfield, Union Oil, Exxon, Shell and Mobil). The “Big Six” were the large certified public accounting companies, such as Arthur Anderson, Coopers …

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Visualize Your Laboratory’s Future

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / By R. Lewis Dark

Many of you who read this will be in attendance at the second annual Executive War College on Medical Laboratory Networking in New Orleans. The case studies of laboratory consolidation and regional laboratory networks that you’ll hear provide compelling evidence that laboratories must change if they are to survive and thrive. This issue of THE …

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Making $1 Billion Disappear

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / By R. Lewis Dark

MOST PEOPLE WOULD AGREE WITH ME THAT $1 BILLION IS A HUGE AMOUNT of money. It generally takes the federal government to squander amounts that big. The Internal Revenue Service’s $2 billion computer boondoggle is the latest example of government incompetence with taxpayers’ money. So I feel I will be in good company when I express …

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Another Portent Of Change

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / By R. Lewis Dark

How many laboratory executives and pathologists consider themselves futurists? Probably not many, because healthcare’s traditional fee-for-service arrangements provided little financial incentive to alter the status quo. Yet I would argue that the radical restructuring of healthcare currently underway demands that laboratory executives acquire the talent for anticipating the future. In 1992, how many laboratory executives …

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Laboratories Enter The Era Of Big Government

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / By R. Lewis Dark

You will read in this issue of THE DARK REPORT how federal prosecutors have now taken all three of the national laboratories to the woodshed. SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories was the latest to make the trip, paying $325 million to settle a wide variety of allegations and violations of Medicare regulations. However, there is something …

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