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“March 10, 1997 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

The field of automated cytology is advancing quickly. Technology is rapidly pushing into the marketplace. Here’s a sampling of recent developments among cytology-based companies… Cytyc Corporation and Laboratory Corporation of America announced on March 6 that a national contract had been signed between the two companies. LabCorp will make Cytyc’s ThinPrep® Pap smear available to […]

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Differing Views About Capitation Rate Trends

Managed Care Contracts / Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: Laboratory executives in California believe that capitated rates for laboratory services in the state may soon increase. But no one knows for sure, and no documentation about specific capitation rates for newly signed laboratory services contracts has yet to become public. COMBINING BRAVADO AND BLUFF in one move, Unilab Inc.’s letter-writing blitz to

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Second War College Set For New Orleans In May

Clinical Laboratory Trends / Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: Laboratory consolidation and networking activity continues to intensify. This year’s War College faculty features exceptional stories about what works and what doesn’t. New Orleans is the place to be on May 20-21 for proactive laboratory administrators and pathologists seeking to give their organization a competitive advantage. WHEN THE SECOND EXECUTIVE WAR COLLEGE convenes

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AmeriPath To Go Public, Files SEC Registration

Laboratory Management / Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: AmeriPath’s Initial Public Offering will make it the first publicly traded physician practice management company specializing in pathology. It represents a unique attempt to restructure traditional pathology practices to meet the needs of managed healthcare organizations. PATHOLOGY ENTERS A NEW ERA when AmeriPath, Inc. completes its proposed Initial Public Offering (IPO) during the

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AmeriPath’s Strategies For Business Success

Pathology Trends / Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: Two fascinating aspects about the AmeriPath story are: 1) the strategy to boost share values; and 2) the strategy to develop profitable pathology revenues. With managed healthcare transforming pathology at an astounding rate, will AmeriPath succeed in both strategies? DURING THE LAST YEAR, intense curiosity swirled about AmeriPath, Inc. Pathologists heard plenty of

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Laboratory Trade Group Launches New Activities

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: Long overlooked by most of the laboratory industry, ACLA may be in the process of revolutionary change. Since David Sundwall, M.D., became President, ACLA has taken a more assertive stance on a wide variety of issues which affect all laboratories, not just ACLA members. LONG CONSIDERED by most laboratory executives as a tight

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1997’s Most Interesting Laboratory Innovators

Laboratory Management / Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: During the next year, the clinical laboratory industry faces some of its toughest business challenges in history. Here are eight individuals who possess a unique combination of spirit and grit and seek to transform their laboratory organizations into winners. EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE are to be found within the clinical laboratory industry. However, because of

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Lab Services In Canada Undergo Radical Changes

Laboratory Management / Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: Canada’s single-payer healthcare system is undergoing transformation. Rising costs now compel individual provinces to re-engineer their existing healthcare arrangements. In Alberta, commercial laboratories were forced to merge and cooperate with hospital-based laboratories. UPHEAVALS WITHIN CANADA’S HEALTHCARE SYSTEM radically transforming laboratories. This is particularly true of Alberta, where the province brought both hospital and

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