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Hospital Lab Outreach: Still a Valuable Asset!
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 13 – September 23, 2024 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Hospital lab administrators everywhere are watching press releases announcing the latest agreement of a major health system selling its laboratory outreach business to one of the billion-dollar lab corporations. The pace of these sales is accelerating. These deals confirm the…
Is There Evidence That Some Doctors Wish to Use Local Labs?
By Virchow | From the Volume XXXI, No. 3 – February 26, 2024 Issue
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Labcorp and Quest Discuss Outreach Acquisition Potential
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX, No. 14 – October 2, 2023 Issue
GIVEN THE POTENTIAL UPSIDE OF HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN ADDED REVENUES, both Labcorp and Quest Diagnostics remain on the prowl to acquire more hospital laboratory outreach …
Quest Acquires Lab Outreach from New York-Presbyterian
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX, No. 6 – April 17, 2023 Issue
IT’S THE LATEST DEAL THAT AFFIRMS STATEMENTS by executives of the two largest national labs that hospital CEOs have a growing interest in selling their laboratory outreach businesses. Recently, Quest Diagnostics announced that it will take over the labor…
Enzo Biochem’s Lab Business Sold to Labcorp for $146M
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX, No. 5 – March 27, 2023 Issue
COMMERCIAL LABORATORY CONSOLIDATION CONTINUES, this time with news earlier this month that New York City-based Enzo Biochem agreed to sell its clinical laboratory business to Labcorp. The deal points to the problem many clinical laboratori…
Acquisitions Bloom, at the Expense of Hospital Labs?
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXX No. 4 – March 6, 2023 Issue
READERS WILL UNCOVER A THEME OF MERGERS AND CONSOLIDATIONS running throughout this issue of The Dark Report. Whether it be health systems acquiring or merging with each other or national laboratory companies seeking to run hospital lab businesses, it is an unstable time for …
Labcorp: Ascension Deal Will Earn $550 Million in 2023
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX No. 4 – March 6, 2023 Issue
PUBLICLY TRADED LABORATORY COMPANIES OFFERED INSIGHTS into how acquisitions of hospital lab operations and outreach businesses add to their bottom lines, according to recent reports on full-year 2022 and fourth quarter earnings. Last year was a busy one…
Alert! Changes to CLIA Accreditation, CLIA Revisions
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXX No. 2 – January 23, 2023 Issue
MEDICAL LABORATORIES HAVE LIVED WITH THE REGULATIONS FOR THE CLINICAL LABORATORY IMPROVEMENTS AMENDMENTS (CLIA) since they were first implemented in 1992. Over the past 30 years there has been no major revision or updating of CLIA regulations. Nor has there been much change in the long-standing statu…
Labcorp Selects Oracle Cerner to Streamline Lab Workflows
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX No. 2 – January 23, 2023 Issue
THERE IS A UNIQUE CORPORATE COLLABORATION unfolding that involves Labcorp and Oracle Cerner. Announced in November, Labcorp will use Oracle Cerner’s lab information systems to update clinical laboratory workflow processes and support the sharing of patient data across healthcare organ…
May 16, 2022 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 7 – May 16, 2022 Issue
Chalk up another lab outreach deal for Labcorp. The Burlington, N.C.-based company has agreed to acquire certain assets of AtlantiCare’s clinical laboratory outreach business. The deal was announced on May 9, with no financial terms disclosed. The outreach business of AtlantiCare, bas…
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