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Volume XIX No. 17 - December 10, 2012

PAML, Pathology and New Opportunities

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / By

BY ANY MEASURE, MAJOR CHANGES ARE COMING to the profession of laboratory medicine. I assume that you are familiar with most of the trends, healthcare reforms, and significant reductions in lab test reimbursement that appear regularly in the headlines. Many of these developments are unfavorable to the status quo in today’s lab testing marketplace. At …

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Four California Labs Sue Quest and Three Insurers

Laboratory Compliance / By

CEO SUMMARY: Allegations of anticompetitive and monopolistic behaviors that violate state and federal laws are the basis of a private lawsuit filed by four independent clinical lab companies in California. The defendants are Quest Diagnostics Incorporated, Aetna, Blue Shield of California, and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. Plaintiffs claim that the defendants “conspired… to …

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RDX Alters Business Plan Due to Lab Market Changes

Clinical Laboratory Trends / By

CEO SUMMARY: Executives at Regional Diagnostic Laboratories (RDX) made a splash last May when they announced the new company’s plans to acquire hospital laboratory outreach programs, backed by a capital commitment of $250 million. Now, in recognition of swift changes in the lab test marketplace, RDX has pulled back and will wait for a more …

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New Business Helps Reduce Pathology Specimen ID Errors

Anatomic Pathology / By

CEO SUMMARY: Prevention of diagnostic testing errors is getting more attention by both physicians and pathology labs because patients are less tolerant of potentially life-changing errors. Strand Diagnostics’ Know Error system is designed to reduce or eliminate errors involving tissue specimen misidentification. In this first part of our two-part series, we provide information about the …

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Pathologists Benefit from Hospital Lab Consulting

Pathology Trends / By

CEO SUMMARY: Deteriorating finances at many rural hospitals and smaller community hospitals is a growing trend. It is also a new consulting opportunity for local pathologists because financially-strapped hospitals often give their labs inadequate working capital and lack the staff needed to comply fully with state and federal compliance requirements. In Shreveport, Louisiana, Delta Pathology …

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December 20, 2012 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

Late Breaking Lab News / By

Consolidation of in vitro diagnostics (IVD) manufacturers continues to help industry leaders become ever bigger. When Hologic, Inc., of Bedford, Massachusetts, reported its third quarter earnings last month, it reported that diagnostics is now the largest business segment at the $2.6 billion company, following its acquisition of Gen-Probe, Inc., last August. For third quarter, total …

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