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Lab “Home Brews” Web Solution for Test Results

Laboratory Information Systems / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: Internet-enabled lab test ordering and results reporting may help independent commercial labs and hospital laboratory outreach programs become more competitive against the two blood brothers. In eastern Pennsylvania, Clinical Laboratories, Inc. introduced Web-based lab test results reporting in July 1998. Since that date, sales are up and clients are happier. HOSPITAL LABORATORY OUTREACH …

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Insurers Dropping Medicare HMO Programs in Various Regions

Managed Care Contracts / By Robert Michel

Several of the nation’s largest health insurance companies will cease offering Medicare HMOs in certain regions of the United States. Almost 800,000 of the nature’s seniors will be dropped from Medicare +Choice plans as Aetna/US Healthcare, Foundation Health Systems, Oxford Health Systems, Cigna, and Pacificare withdraw their Medicare HMO programs in specific regions around the …

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Investors Returning To Lab Industry

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

SOMETHING BIG IS HAPPENING to the clinical laboratory industry and the anatomic pathology profession. For the first time in six or seven years, the investment community is paying close attention to the laboratory industry. This should be a welcome development for commercial lab owners and anatomic pathologists. Behind the scenes and out of the headlines, a number …

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Questions Remain About Performance Of Liquid-Prep Paps

Laboratory Equipment / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: During the past five years, several companies entered the lab marketplace with claims that their new Pap test technologies are improvements over conventional Pap smear methods. Armed with investment capital from Wall Street, these companies launched aggressive sales and marketing campaigns to clinical labs, pathologists, payers, physicians, and women. The diversity of advertising …

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“June 19, 2000 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

Late Breaking Lab News / By Robert Michel

At DIANON Systems, Inc., recent growth in revenues and profits may cost the anatomic pathology company its independence. In recent weeks there’s been widespread speculation that DIANON may be involved in some type of acquisition or merger negotiations. At various times, each of the two blood brothers has been rumored as an interested party. As …

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Labs Should Leverage Their “Crown Jewels”

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

ONE NEW FEATURE of our annual Executive War College every May is a Lab CEO SUMMIT which takes place on the Thursday after the Tuesday-Wednesday event. It attracts a growing number of senior lab executives and pathologists who come to explore the strategic directions of the lab industry and pathology profession. This year’s Lab CEO …

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BRLI Ready To Leverage Physician Relationship

Laboratory Management / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: As healthcare E-commerce rapidly approaches, clinical laboratories will find they have a built-in competitive advantage—their existing business relationship and communication links to physician offices. Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc. is moving rapidly to capitalize on this competitive advantage. It is making sizable investments to offer physicians more than just laboratory tests. IN THE COMING WORLD …

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War College Identifies Emerging Lab Trends

Clinical Laboratory Trends / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: Disruptive technologies and the arrival of healthcare E-commerce were two common themes which emerged from this year’s Executive War College on Laboratory and Pathology Management. Consensus by faculty and attendees alike was that every lab organization should have an Internet business strategy, along with an accelerated implementation timetable! DESPITE CONTINUING laboratory consolidation and …

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Columbia/HCA’s $745 Mil Settlement Announced

Laboratory Compliance / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: Although Columbia/HCA will pay the feds $745 million as part of its recent settlement, the facts of “Medicare fraud” are far from convincing. Wall Street Journal analyst Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. makes a strong argument that the government was able to pick on Columbia/HCA for a variety of reasons, most tied to former …

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Columbia/HCA, AmeriPath, Epitope, STC Technologies, Quest Diagnostics

Laboratory Management / By Robert Michel

COLUMBIA/HCA GETS NEW NAME; ACQUIRES FOUR LONDON HOSPITALS NOW THAT IT HAS A SETTLEMENT with the federal government on civil claims of Medicare fraud, expect a rapid cascade of changes at Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corporation, the nation’s largest for-profit hospital company. First is a new name. Effective on May 25, Columbia/HCA is now called HCA-The Healthcare …

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