Dermatologists Say Anthem Cuts Affect Patient Care

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXVI No. 11 – August 12, 2019 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Deep cuts in what Anthem pays pathologists for the professional component for certain AP services are having a harmful effect on the long-standing relationships that dermatologists have with dermatopathologists, some physicians say. By disrupting these relationships, Anthem i…

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WakeMed Uses Drone to Deliver Patient Specimens

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXVI No. 5 – April 8, 2019 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: For two years, clinical lab professionals at WakeMed Health and Hospitals have tested the use of aerial drones to transport patient specimens from a physicians’ office satellite lab/draw station to the WakeMed Medical Center’s central lab. Late last month, they completed …

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Ultimate Clinical Lab Automation: WakeMed Uses Drone to Deliver Patient Specimens

By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXVI No. 5 – April 8, 2019 Issue

This is an excerpt from a 1,550-word article in the April 8, 2019 issue of THE DARK REPORT. The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: For two years, clinical lab professionals at WakeMed Health and Hospitals have tested the use of aerial dron…

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Why Pharma, Private Equity Want to Reshape Lab Industry

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXV No. 5 – March 26, 2018 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: A disruptive force that involves precision medicine, pharmaceutical companies, and venture capital investors is poised to reshape the clinical laboratory industry. Genetic knowledge makes it possible to match cancer drugs to specific mutations. Pharma companies and professio…

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Value of Miraca Falls By 92% from 2011 to 2017

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIV No. 17 – December 11, 2017 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Miraca Life Sciences amended its merger agreement with Avista Capital Partners after the lab lost value in the two months since the agreement was signed in September. Factors precipitating the revision were a significant decline in reimbursement rates, stiff competition from …

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Labs: Watch for Whistleblowers! You Can’t Predict Who’s Filing

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIV No. 9 – June 26, 2017 Issue

NEWS STORIES ABOUT TWO DIFFERENT FEDERAL WHISTLEBLOWER CASES against lab companies provide a reminder that managers of every clinical laboratory and pathology group must be vigilant about compliance, because potential whistleblowers can emerge from the unlikeliest of places. The first example involv…

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Florida Pathology Group Lost Volume After BeaconLBS Started

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII No. 9 – July 5, 2016 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: A 22-physician pathology group in Tampa has complied with rules for lab test ordering that UnitedHealthcare and BeaconLBS established, yet has experienced a steep decline in the volume of specimens it receives. Physicians told the pathologists that other labs were not using t…

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Despite Tough Anatomic Pathology Market, Bostwick Opens New Laboratory

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII, No. 1 – January 19, 2016 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Once again, entrepreneur and pathologist David G. Bostwick, MD, is starting up a new lab company. Granger Diagnostics is now open and is located in North Chesterfield, Virginia. It is designed to be an anatomic, clinical, and molecular pathology reference laboratory. In an ex…

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December 28, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXII, Number 18 – December 28, 2015 Issue

To advance the practice of precision medicine through better use of genetic testing, a new limited liability corporation (LLC) was formed. Participating in the LLC are North Shore-LIJ Heal…

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Labs Can Earn Revenue through Data Analytics

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXII, Number 18 – December 28, 2015 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: There is a new buyer for lab test data, creating an opportunity for labs to build a new revenue stream. Medivo, Inc., of New York, describes itself as a healthcare data analytics company whose mission is to unlock the power of lab data to improve health. It works with clinica…

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