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Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark

New York Laboratories Discover New Power

For those of you following the story of New York’s new surcharge on clinical laboratory tests, there is a great lesson to be learned. It is a lesson in the extensive power possessed by clinical laboratories. After New York’s hospital finance reform law passed the legislature last summer, lab industry representatives spoke with state legislators, …

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Plenty Of Money To Go Around

Despite what managed care is doing to clinical laboratories, money abounds to sell more goods. In this issue, you will read about how AmeriPath, Inc. is about to raise $71.7 million while Cytyc Corp. intends to generate $48.2 million in its second public offering in 12 months. The list of laboratory-related companies which raised money …

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Laboratory Trade Group Launches New Activities

CEO SUMMARY: Long overlooked by most of the laboratory industry, ACLA may be in the process of revolutionary change. Since David Sundwall, M.D., became President, ACLA has taken a more assertive stance on a wide variety of issues which affect all laboratories, not just ACLA members. LONG CONSIDERED by most laboratory executives as a tight …

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It Can’t Happen Here

Here is another issue of THE DARK REPORT with stories about radical changes to laboratory organizations. When Canada’s Alberta Province whacked almost 40% out of the healthcare budget over two years, laboratories were left with no option but to engineer radical change. How would laboratories in the United States respond if they were told by …

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