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Volume XIX No. 18 - December 31, 2012

Finding Lab Growth Opportunities Amid the Gloom

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / By

IN MANY WAYS, THE TRADITIONAL BUSINESS MODELS for laboratory testing services are proving deficient in the face of a swiftly-evolving healthcare system. I suspect that none of us fully understand how many laboratory organizations are already under extreme financial stress. We intuitively understand that, somewhere out in the healthcare marketplace, clever and innovative pathologists are …

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2012’s Top Ten Lab Stories Predict More Challenges

Clinical Laboratory / By

CEO SUMMARY: It’s been a year with more lows than highs, when viewed through the lens of THE DARK REPORT’S “Top Ten Lab Stories of 2012.” The end of the TC grandfather clause, new policies for prostate biopsy billing, and a dramatic 52% cut to 88305- TC fees were widely reported. But there was equally …

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Price Cuts, Long Delays in Payment Are Expected

Laboratory Billing / By

CEO SUMMARY: In addition to a steep cut in the 88305 CPT code, anatomic pathology laboratories can expect cuts in the payment from Medicare for molecular and prostate biopsy testing. Two national experts in lab billing and reimbursement warn labs to expect confusion in how both public and private payers implement these new policies. Overall, …

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Ascend Clinical Acquires PathCentral Lab Business

Anatomic Pathology / By

CEO SUMMARY: Ascend Clinical and PathCentral see an opportunity to provide sophisticated services to community pathology groups. Ascend Clinical will expand the molecular diagnostic and gene sequencing business it is purchasing from PathCentral. PathCentral will concentrate on marketing its cloud-based anatomic pathology LIS solution and launching a pathology professional network early in 2013. Each company …

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Preserving Competition Is Goal of California Lawsuit

Managed Care Contracts / By

CEO SUMMARY: Once again, the use of deeply-discounted lab test pricing to win exclusive managed care contracts is involved in a court case. However, this latest private lawsuit is different from earlier cases because it seeks to preserve competition in the lab testing and the managed care contracting marketplaces, said an attorney for the four …

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December 31, 2012 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

Late Breaking Lab News / By

It is likely that the latest lab acquisition by Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc. (BRLI) is for the purpose of building its new Hispanic laboratory business, called Laboratorio Buena Salud. Earlier this month, BRLI announced an agreement to purchase Meridian Clinical Laboratory Corporation, located in Miami, Florida. It’s a small transaction, with a price of approximately $1.85 million. …

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