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Commercial Lab JVs With Hospitals Are Declining In Number

Clinical Laboratory Trends / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: There are many reasons why a properly-designed and well-managed laboratory test joint venture (JV) between a commercial lab company and a hospital should succeed. But no matter how strong such concepts look on paper, the real world has proven to be a harsh environment. A handful of promising JVs took root during the …

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Survivor: Story of the Nation’s Largest Lab Firm

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

TELEVISION’S “SURVIVOR” IS THE UNFOLDING STORY of how one person competes to outlast 16 fellow players in a remote outdoor setting. The winner of “Survivor” walks away with a $1 million prize. The show has proven to be popular and is now airing episodes of its fourth group of competitors, stuck on a tropical island …

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Is Physicians’ Office Testing Evolving Toward an Oligopoly?

Clinical Laboratory Trends / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: One of the most unpopular industries with consumers is the airline industry. At the national level, it is an oligopoly—dominated by seven carriers. But in many cities, it is a monopoly, with one airline flying 80% of the seats in and out of town. Ongoing consolidation of regional commercial labs by the Two …

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THE DARK REPORT’S Annual Ranking of Public Laboratory Companies

Clinical Laboratory / By Robert Michel

Boom times continued during 2001 for both the clinical laboratory industry and anatomic pathology profession. Throughout 2001, almost every public lab company was able to post double-digit revenue growth. For a number of companies, this growth was accomplished by acquiring smaller laboratory companies. But most lab companies also report strong increases in specimen volume attributable …

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“May 13, 2002 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

Late Breaking Lab News / By Robert Michel

Guess whose DNA was used by Celera Genomics during its project to map the human genome back in 1999? It was primarily the DNA of J. Craig Ventor, Ph.D., who was Chairman of Celera at that time. The disclosure, made last week, has stirred some controversy. Defenders say it is in the tradition of self-experimentation …

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Ken Freeman Discusses Plans to Integrate AML and Unilab

Clinical Laboratory Trends / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: Once again, Ken Freeman and Quest Diagnostics Incorporated is altering the national market for clinical laboratory testing. By acquiring American Medical Laboratories and Unilab, the nation’s largest lab company is expanding its presence in California, Nevada, and Washington, DC. In this exclusive interview with THE DARK REPORT, Chairman and CEO Ken Freeman explains …

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HMO Enrollment In Decline; PPOs Capture 48% of Market

Clinical Laboratory Trends / By Robert Michel

ENROLLMENT IN THE NATION’S HMOS has declined in each of the last two years. Experts now believe the heyday of the classic closed-panel, gatekeeper model of the HMO has ended. “HMOs are in full retreat,” observed Bryant Armstrong, a healthcare consultant in the Dallas office of Hewitt Associates. “They are not dead by any means. …

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Dynacare, LabCorp, IMPATH, Visible Genetics, Abbott Labs

Clinical Laboratory / By Robert Michel

ACTIVITY AT DYNACARE HINTS AT POSSIBLE SALE, LABCORP MAY BE BUYER With Quest Diagnostics Incorporated snapping up independent lab companies right and left in recent months, the question asked by many is “Where’s Laboratory Corporation of America?” On the sell side, American Medical Laboratories and Unilab have been acquired by Quest Diagnostics. The largest remaining …

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Clinical Decision Support Systems Arrive

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

FORWARD THINKERS IN CLINICAL LABORATORIES and anatomic pathology groups have always recognized the substantial, but as yet unharvested, potential that would accrue to the healthcare system were clinicians to make better use of laboratory testing. All of us know stories and anecdotes about how certain of these forward thinkers tried to get their hospital or …

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Why Can’t Hospital Laboratories Collaborate?

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

MOST PEOPLE KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT THE INNER WORKINGS of the clinical laboratory industry generally agree that hospital laboratories possess inherent advantages over commercial laboratories—anytime a hospital lab outreach program is organized properly and marketed professionally. Certainly the managed care contracting success of Joint Venture Hospital Laboratories (JVHL) in Detroit and throughout the state of Michigan bears …

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