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Year-end Financials Released For Quest, LabCorp & LabOne

The Dark Report / By Robert Michel

In RECENT WEEKS, public laboratory companies have released earnings reports for the year-ending December 31, 2004. It was generally a good year for the three largest lab companies that have a major emphasis on providing lab testing services to office-based physicians. In this year’s review, THE DARK REPORT looks at Quest Diagnostics Incorporated, Laboratory Corporation …

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“March 28, 2005 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

Late Breaking Lab News / By Robert Michel

For lab managers and pathologists tracking the growth of e-commerce, here’s a revealing statistic. The Federal Reserve Bank released numbers showing that 2003 was the first year where the number of electronic payment transactions exceeded the number of trans- actions paid by check. During 2003, there were 44.5 billion electronic payment transactions compared to 36.7 …

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Spectrum Owns MEDex, Comments on Trends

Clinical Laboratory Trends / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: Spectrum Laboratory Network recently completed its acquisition of MEDex Laboratories, Inc. of Kingsport, Tennessee. It is becoming a regional laboratory powerhouse, challenging Laboratory Corporation of America in North Carolina and establishing a sales base in Atlanta, long-dominated by Quest Diagnostics Incorporated. It is also adding managed care contracts. HAVING COMPLETED ITS ACQUISITION of …

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National Reference Labs Undergoing Changes

Clinical Laboratory Trends / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: Maybe it’s a coincidence. More likely it is a response to changes in the reference/esoteric marketplace. Specialty, Esoterix, ARUP, and Mayo have each recently reassessed their core strategies and are shifting their business emphasis. Because three of these four companies are profitable, it is not an industry segment under duress. Rather, this shift …

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Baylor University Lab Serves ED Needs With STAT Lab

Clinical Laboratory / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: Throughout the United States, hospital laboratories are working to meet ever-increasing lab testing demands by emergency department physicians. In response, many labs debate the benefits of a point-of-care testing (POCT) solution versus operating a rapid response lab in or next to the emergency department. Baylor chose the latter, and reports that it was …

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“March 7, 2005 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

Late Breaking Lab News / By Robert Michel

It was good news for the nine-year old boy with the rare brain tumor he named “Frankstein.” On midnight, Monday, February 14, 2005, the family received a telephone call from the surgeon who performed the biopsy on February 2, 2005. He confirmed that the biopsy was negative for cancer. What is interesting about the lengthy …

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“Frankenstein the Tumor” is No More

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / By R. Lewis Dark

HOW MANY OF YOU HEARD ABOUT THE TUMOR NAMED “FRANKENSTEIN”? This is a story which made national news in mid-January and again in early February. The story line is simple. A nine-year old boy in Richmond, Virginia was diagnosed in May 2003 with embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma. A grapefruit-sized tumor was impinging on his optic nerves and …

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Review of 2004 Lab Sales Identifies Buyer Interest

Clinical Laboratory Trends / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: Laboratory acquisition activity was surprisingly high during 2004. One reason is that new buyers appeared in the marketplace. However, all buyers have specific acquisition criteria. When a selling lab meets that criteria, it can expect multiple bidders and a strong purchase price. Here’s a review of 2004’s lab acquisition activity, with commentary about …

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Barristers Offer Insights Into OIG Opinion 04-17

Anatomic Pathology / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: This is an intelligence briefing which tries to “read between the lines” and: 1) provide useful information about the OIG’s “undeclared” views on physician self-referral issues, particularly as they relate to anatomic pathology condominiums; and, 2) how specialist physician groups and pathologists are reacting to such issues in the real world of the …

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RFID, Georgetown University Hospital, HIV Screening Studies, MDS, Duke, HCA, Cigna

Clinical Laboratory Trends / By Robert Michel

PFIZER AND GLAXO-SK TO USE RFID TAGS IN 2005, RFID TEST IN BLOOD BANK RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID) is making swift progress in a variety of healthcare applications. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to secure the nation’s drug supply through widespread use of RFID tags by 2007. To counter drug counterfeiting, some pharmaceutical …

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