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IN ONE SENSE, WE CAN SAY THAT THE DECADE OF 2001 THROUGH 2010 was bookended by two one-half billion dollar anatomic pathology acquisitions. Each transaction was a powerful signal to Wall Street investors. Unfortunately, most pathologists are not tuned into that signal and so continue to miss the message. It was back in 2002 when …
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CEO SUMMARY: With the announcement that it will purchase CBL Path, Inc., Sonic Healthcare, Ltd., becomes the latest public laboratory company to buy a sizeable presence in the national anatomic pathology (AP) marketplace. For CBL Path, founded in 2003 by ex-Dianon executives and sales professionals, it is the exit strategy for which they have long …
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CEO SUMMARY: More buyers are crowding into the lab testing industry and looking to acquire anatomic pathology testing companies. These buyers are willing to pay strong prices to acquire AP labs and companies which they determine to be a strategic fit. All of this acquisition activity is happening even as the Baby Boomer generation of …
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CEO SUMMARY: Not in recent memory has a laboratory information system (LIS) product been pulled from the market. That is why the announcement by GE Healthcare that it would no longer service or support its Centricity Ultra Laboratory product after July 23, 2013, has caused a stir within the healthcare informatics industry. In the United …
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ONE OF THE FEW PUBLIC STOCK OFFERINGS involving a lab testing company was completed last Wednesday. Exact Sciences, Inc., of Madison, Wisconsin sold $69 million worth of new shares to the public. Exact Sciences has proprietary diagnostic technology that it describes as “for noninvasive, molecular screening technology for the detection of colorectal cancer.” During 2009, …
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CEO Summary: Pathologists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, in a collaboration with GenomeQuest, Inc., will produce whole human genome sequences of patient tumors and other specimens. These whole genome sequences will be studied to learn what diagnostic, therapeutic, and prognostic information they contain. GenomeQuest CEO Richard Resnick discusses what is required …
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CEO SUMMARY: Aetna, Inc., sued Laboratory Corporation of America in federal court, seeking injuctive relief for actions taken once LabCorp became an out-of-network laboratory provider for Aetna in July 2007. LabCorp is also accused of a “malicious scheme to continue to receive revenue” from Aetna. However, as an out-of-network laboratory provider, LabCorp has only been …
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During this last election, a pathologist ran for the U.S. Senate, but his campaign did not draw much attention within the lab testing community. Pathologist Eric Wargotz, M.D., was the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in Maryland. His opponent was Democratic Senator Barbara Mikulski, running for her fifth term. On election day, Mikulski outpolled …
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