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Volume IX No. 6 - April 22, 2002

California Is Lab Industryā€™s Bellwether Again

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / By

ITā€™S NO COINCIDENCE THAT two recent lab industry developments are centered around lab companies in California. Repeatedly that state has proven to be a valuable bellwether of lab industry trends for the nation. On the lab regulatory front, state officials from the California Department of Health Services (CDHS) have sanctioned Specialty Laboratories, Inc., based upon …

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State, Federal Regulators Target Specialty Labs

Laboratory Compliance / By

CEO SUMMARY: Specialty Laboratories, Inc. has earned the dubious honor of being the first-ever publicly-traded laboratory to have its CLIA-88 license revoked by federal regulators, terminating its right to payment for services covered by Medicare and Medicaid. The revocation is slated to take effect on April 26, but is subject to a court appeal that …

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Quest Pays $1.1 Billion To Acquire Unilab Corp.

Clinical Laboratory Trends / By

CEO SUMMARY: Quest Diagnostics Incorporated is showing its muscle. The dust had hardly settled on its $500 million acquisition of American Medical Laboratories when the lab industryā€™s behemoth announced that it would pay $1.1 billion to buy Unilab, by far the largest lab testing company in California. Integration of the two laboratory operations is planned …

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Ken Freeman Discusses Plans to Integrate AML and Unilab

Clinical Laboratory Trends / By

CEO SUMMARY: Once again, Ken Freeman and Quest Diagnostics Incorporated is altering the national market for clinical laboratory testing. By acquiring American Medical Laboratories and Unilab, the nationā€™s largest lab company is expanding its presence in California, Nevada, and Washington, DC. In this exclusive interview with THE DARK REPORT, Chairman and CEO Ken Freeman explains …

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HMO Enrollment In Decline; PPOs Capture 48% of Market

Clinical Laboratory Trends / By

ENROLLMENT IN THE NATIONā€™S HMOS has declined in each of the last two years. Experts now believe the heyday of the classic closed-panel, gatekeeper model of the HMO has ended. ā€œHMOs are in full retreat,ā€ observed Bryant Armstrong, a healthcare consultant in the Dallas office of Hewitt Associates. ā€œThey are not dead by any means. …

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Dynacare, LabCorp, IMPATH, Visible Genetics, Abbott Labs

Clinical Laboratory / By

ACTIVITY AT DYNACARE HINTS AT POSSIBLE SALE, LABCORP MAY BE BUYER With Quest Diagnostics Incorporated snapping up independent lab companies right and left in recent months, the question asked by many is ā€œWhereā€™s Laboratory Corporation of America?ā€ On the sell side, American Medical Laboratories and Unilab have been acquired by Quest Diagnostics. The largest remaining …

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“April 22, 2002 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

Late Breaking Lab News / By

Careside, Inc.ā€™s point-of-care instruments for routine chemistry and hematology are moving into the clinical marketplace. (See TDR, November 22, 1999.) Through January, the company, based in Culver City, California, had placed 73 units, with another 17 on order. Caresideā€™s marketing strategy is to emphasize sales of these instruments to physician office settings rather than hospitals. …

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