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Volume XIX No. 8 - June 4, 2012

Healthcare Reform Puts Local Labs at Risk

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / By

THESE ARE DANGEROUS TIMES for local clinical labs and community hospital-based pathology groups. Although several elements of healthcare reform and emerging models of integrated clinical care favor local labs, there are equally powerful trends at play with the potential to concentrate ever more market share and economic power into the hands of a dwindling number …

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Cleveland Clinic Lab Aims to Grow Reference Testing

Laboratory Management / By

CEO SUMMARY: In the national market for reference and esoteric testing, Cleveland Clinic Laboratories (CCL) is preparing to expand its presence. It has just moved into a $75 million state-of-the-art laboratory facility and wants to increase its outreach reference testing by four-fold within five years. A doubling of the national sales force is in the …

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Sonic Healthcare Acquires Labs from Aussie Competitor

Laboratory Management / By

LABORATORY CONSOLIDATION continues in Australia with news that Sonic Healthcare Limited of Sydney, Australia, has agreed to acquire three clinical laboratory business units from competitor Healthscope, Ltd., of Melbourne, Australia. The acquisition was announced on May 16. In three separate transactions, Sonic will pay A$100 million (US$99.4 million) for the Healthscope pathology operations in Queensland, …

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In Florida, New Law Bans Certain Lab Sales Practices

Laboratory Compliance / By

CEO SUMMARY: Florida law has long prohibited clinical laboratories from giving kickbacks and other forms of remuneration to physicians to induce specimen referrals. Specifically, state regulations have prevented labs from placing specimen collectors in physicians’ offices. Despite these clear prohibitions, labs regularly violated state rules by placing specimen collectors and other lab employees in physicians’ …

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Health Insurers Now Finding Ways to Cut Costs and Shed Risks

Laboratory Management / By

CEO SUMMARY: Both employers and health insurers are taking aggressive steps to rein in healthcare costs. Several strategies to control spending and create powerful new incentives for providers are gaining favor. At this year’s Executive War College, Paul Mango of McKinsey & Company, explained these strategies and emphasized that new models for handling health risk …

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Lab Restructuring Moves Ahead in United Kingdom and Ireland

Laboratory Management / By

IT IS TOUGH TIMES FINANCIALLY for pathology and clinical laboratories in the British Isles. In both the nations of the United Kingdom and Ireland, the budget woes of the respective national governments are driving major changes in the organization and delivery of laboratory testing services. In the United Kingdom, efforts by the government dating back …

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June 4, 2012 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

Late Breaking Lab News / By

It’s a milestone on the path to personalized medicine and an example of how integrated health informatics will give clinicians real-time access to unlimited amounts of medical data. The 1000 Genomes Project announced in recent months that “the world’s largest set of data on human variation” is now available on the Amazon Web Services cloud …

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