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Wedding Between AutoCyte and NeoPath Will Spawn A Single Prep/Screen System

Laboratory Automation / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: Various technologies that automate cytology and Pap smear screening entered the clinical marketplace during the last four years. Because managed healthcare views new technology with a more skeptical eye than fee-for-service healthcare, THE DARK REPORT has provided extensive analysis for our clients on how and why the market has embraced or rejected this …

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“July 19, 1999 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

Late Breaking Lab News / By Robert Michel

One of dermatopathology’s academic giants has been snared by a pathology PPM. A. Bernard Ackerman, M.D., will leave his professor post at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia to work with AmeriPath, Inc. and help it develop a dermatopathology center in New York City. It is to be called the Ackerman Academy of Dermatopathology. AmeriPath’s goal …

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Surprise Merger Changes Cytology Marketplace

Laboratory Management / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: Expect the merger of AutoCyte, Inc. and NeoPath, Inc. to inaugurate a new market cycle for automated cytology systems. FDA approval of AutoCyte’s liquid preparation system, called PREP™, sets the stage for intensified marketing battles between the AutoCyte/NeoPath consortium and Cytyc Corporation. Clinical laboratories should benefit from this competition. When the recently-announced merger …

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Associated Pathologists Laboratories, Dynacare, Bio-Reference Labs, Quest, AmeriPath

Laboratory Management / By Robert Michel

ASSOCIATED PATH LABS WINS PATENT FOR DRUGS OF ABUSE TEST IT’S NOT TOO OFTEN that independent commercial laboratories are awarded patents. Las Vegas-based Associated Pathologists Laboratories received a patent for a technique it developed relating to drugs of abuse testing. The patent involves a unique method for detecting drugs of abuse in hair samples. APL …

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Marketplace Rewards Those Who Get It Right

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

INTELLIGENCE BRIEFINGS IN THIS ISSUE REVEAL INTERESTING DEVELOPMENTS in our industry. I would agree with our Editor’s assessment that a new cycle of investment in laboratory companies is about to occur. There is also confirmation that laboratories which offer HMOs more than simple lab test data can get a leg up on their competitors. On …

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DIANON Systems Nails Contract To Provide AP Services To Aetna

Managed Care Contracts / By Robert Michel

Sand sales efforts paid off for DIANON Systems, Inc. of Stratford, Connecticut. Last month the publicly-traded lab disclosed a new contract with Aetna/U.S. Healthcare. The pact, signed with Aetna and SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories (SBCL), allows DIANON Systems “to provide anatomic pathology services to specialists through SBCL’s sole source arrangement with Aetna/U.S. Healthcare. The agreement …

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“June 7, 1999 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

Late Breaking Lab News / By Robert Michel

Another laboratorian has caught entrepreneur’s fever. Paul Gotcher accepted a position in April as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Advanced Pathology Systems, Inc. (PSI) of San Francisco. PSI is a start-up company developing enhanced microscopy techniques. Gotcher was most recently with ARUP Laboratories in Salt Lake City. Gotcher earlier served as President and …

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Insurance Premiums Climb 9.7% For Calpers in Calendar 2000

Managed Care Contracts / By Robert Michel

MORE VALIDATION that healthcare premiums will trend upwards at near double-digit rates came from California this week. The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (Calpers) announced it will pay average rate increases of 9.7% to HMOs starting in 2000. This is significant because Calpers is considered one of the shrewdest buyers of healthcare in the nation. …

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AmeriPath, Cytyc, Unilab, Naiad

Laboratory Management / By Robert Michel

AMERIPATH INKS PACT WITH MEDAPHIS, BUYS FLORIDA PATH PRACTICE Things are busy at AmeriPath, Inc. of Riviera Beach, Florida. The pathology practice management company announced a number of accomplishments. First, it signed an agreement with Medaphis Corporation of Atlanta. Medaphis will provide “comprehensive reimbursement services” for 20 AmeriPath practice locations. These will include billing, AR, …

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Preparing for the Unexpected and Unimagined

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

WHO WOULD HAVE EVER PREDICTED THAT A PHLEBOTOMIST would reuse needles? Just as surprising, who would have ever predicted that the phlebotomist would be working at a respected clinical laboratory like SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories (SBCL)? This shocking story is a reminder that laboratory executives should never forget to anticipate every potential problem, no matter how …

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