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Volume XXXII, No. 5 - March 31, 2025

Global IVD Companies Issue Fourth Quarter 2024 Earnings

In Vitro Diagnostics /

OVERALL, IN VITRO DIAGNOSTICS (IVD) COMPANIES REPORTED A MIXED BAG of financial results for the quarter ending Dec. 31, 2024, with Becton, Dickinson and Company, Abbott Laboratories, and Siemens Healthineers showing the most momentum based on recent earnings. Generally, IVD manufacturers did not experience double-digit growth or drops year over year, indicating that some stability […]

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Role of Price Transparency During Path Contract Talks

Anatomic Pathology /

CEO SUMMARY: Pathology groups have a much better opportunity to turn the tables on payers and other third parties during contract negotiations if they come armed with the data and other information recommended by two well-respected pathology experts. In this final installment of our four-part series, the price transparency approach is explained. Also discussed is

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Trump Signs Executive Order on Price Transparency

Laboratory Compliance /

ON FEBRUARY 25, PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SIGNED AN EXECUTIVE ORDER targeted at driving price transparency requirements for hospitals and insurers. The order aims to strictly enforce a previous rule, signed during his first term, intended to provide patients with clear, accurate, and actionable healthcare pricing information. The executive order directs the federal Departments of the

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The Role of Price Transparency During Pathology Contract Talks

TDR Insider /

Pathology groups have a much better opportunity to turn the tables on payers and other third parties during contract negotiations if they come armed with the data and other information recommended by two well-respected pathology experts. In this final installment of our four-part series, the price transparency approach is explained. Also discussed is the importance

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White House Is Off to a Fast Start, So Pay Attention

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark /

We already see the second term of President Donald Trump influencing clinical laboratory business operations. It’s not The Dark Report’s stance to jump on the political soapbox of whether Trump’s actions are a tragedy or a boon; let the cable TV pundits debate that. However, as with any move—business, political, or otherwise—the success or failure

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COLA Summit to Address Lab Staffing Shortages

Clinical Laboratory Trends /

CEO SUMMARY: An upcoming gathering of COLA’s Workforce Action Alliance will focus on three staffing challenges: improving data needed to understand the current clinical laboratory workforce; promoting career paths for new professionals in the field; and identifying ways to better recognize these workers. Workforce shortages have long been a challenge for clinical laboratories, but the

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March 31, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News

Late Breaking Lab News /

As this issue went to press, U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced wide workforce reductions across several agencies that fall under the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). They include the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which will decrease by 3,500 employees; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which

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