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Second War College Set For New Orleans In May

Clinical Laboratory Trends / Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: Laboratory consolidation and networking activity continues to intensify. This year’s War College faculty features exceptional stories about what works and what doesn’t. New Orleans is the place to be on May 20-21 for proactive laboratory administrators and pathologists seeking to give their organization a competitive advantage. WHEN THE SECOND EXECUTIVE WAR COLLEGE convenes […]

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“February 17, 1997 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

Late Breaking Lab News / Robert Michel

Meris Laboratories of San Jose, California settled government claims of Medicare and MediCal fraud with an agreement to pay $5.2 million. The announcement, on February 12, closes another whistleblower suit. MORE ON: Meris Labs… Besides the cholesterol and serum iron tests which are commonly involved in these settlements, Meris was also nailed for billing hemogram

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An Industrial Engineer Looks At Laboratory Automation And Robotics

Laboratory Automation / Robert Michel

EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION: Last fall, Mark Smythe’s four-part DARK REPORT series about the thirteen “Perilous Parallels” common to commercial laboratory managers provoked widespread response among our clients and readers. We’ve invited him back to address management issues involving laboratory automation and robotics. As an industrial engineer with 35 years experience at some of America’s best-run companies,

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New York Labs Sue State To Overturn Surcharge

Laboratory Billing / Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: With the new laboratory test surcharge in place since January 1, 1997, clinical laboratories already see negative financial effects. Administration and collection of the tax is a nightmare. Some managed care companies moved swiftly to reduce reimbursement to laboratories in order to offset the financial impact of this new surcharge on their company.

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Unilab Pushes Insurers To Increase Cap Rates

Managed Care Contracts / Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: California’s financially destructive capitation rates plunged two more laboratories into bankruptcy. Unilab’s actions indicate that even the largest laboratory company in the state can no longer survive without reimbursement relief. The question remains as to whether managed care plans will agree to pay more for laboratory testing. INDICATIONS ARE THAT CAPITATED RATES for

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Differing Views About Capitation Rate Trends

Managed Care Contracts / Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: Laboratory executives in California believe that capitated rates for laboratory services in the state may soon increase. But no one knows for sure, and no documentation about specific capitation rates for newly signed laboratory services contracts has yet to become public. COMBINING BRAVADO AND BLUFF in one move, Unilab Inc.’s letter-writing blitz to

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Plenty Of Money To Go Around

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

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

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / Robert Michel

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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“January 27, 1997 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

Late Breaking Lab News / Robert Michel

Persistence can pay off. After years of struggle, Epitope, Inc. of Beaverton, Oregon received a big “shot inthe arm” when the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reported this month on a clinical study involving Epitope’s OraSure HIV test. The study involved 3,570 patients. It matched results of an HIV blood test against the

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AmeriPath To Go Public, Files SEC Registration

Laboratory Management / Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: AmeriPath’s Initial Public Offering will make it the first publicly traded physician practice management company specializing in pathology. It represents a unique attempt to restructure traditional pathology practices to meet the needs of managed healthcare organizations. PATHOLOGY ENTERS A NEW ERA when AmeriPath, Inc. completes its proposed Initial Public Offering (IPO) during the

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