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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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