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Quest Diagnostics, Labcorp Issue Q4 and Full Year 2024 Earnings
LAB ACQUISITIONS IN 2024 WERE A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR TO REVENUE GROWTH at the nation’s two biggest clinical laboratory companies. This was reflected in the fourth quarter and full year 2024 earnings reports issued by Labcorp and Quest Diagnostics. Here are recently …
Once Again, Congress Acts to Defer Medicare Lab Fee Cuts
LAST MONTH, CONGRESS ONCE AGAIN DEFERRED MEDICARE REIMBURSEMENT CUTS OF UP TO 15% f…
Hospital Lab Outreach: Still a Valuable Asset!
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…
Identifying Current Lab Trends from Labcorp & Quest Experience
CEO SUMMARY: Many different factors influence the operations of clinical laboratories in the United States today. One good source of competitive business intelligence is for lab administrators to follow the quarterly earnings calls of the nation’s two biggest public lab corporations. Wi…
Is There a Future for Hospital Lab Outreach Programs?
CEO SUMMARY: This will be one of the most challenging years facing the clinical lab industry since the early 1990s. The CMS scheme to collect private payer lab test prices and use that data to set Medicare clinical laboratory test pric…
Why PAMA May Be Poised to Disrupt Lab Industry
CEO SUMMARY: This will be one of the most challenging years facing the clinical lab industry since the early 1990s, when closed panel HMOs were the disruptive force that generated deep cuts in lab test prices. However, unlike HMOs of that era, the CMS scheme to collect private payer lab t…
December 3, 2018 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
Another long-established regional laboratory company is about to be acquired. On November 27, Boyce and Bynum Pathology Laboratories of Columbia, Mo., disclosed that it had entered an agreement to be acquired by Quest Diagnostics Inc. Notably, the press release abou…
Is the Joint Venture Hospital Lab an Emerging Trend?
CEO SUMMARY: THE DARK REPORT has uncovered a previously unnoticed trend that turns common wisdom on Wall Street upside down: Hospitals and health systems may be taking back control of their their …
10% PAMA Fee Cut Would Lower Medicare Pay to Laboratories by $400 Million
CEO SUMMARY: Just eight weeks remain before certain clinical laboratories must begin submitting private payer lab test price data to the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. A new report …
A Pantheon of Greatest Lab Physician-Businessmen
WHEN IT COMES TO THE CLINICAL LABORATORY BUSINESS, generally included in the lab industry’s Pantheon of Greatest Physician (Pathologist) Businessmen are Paul A. Brown, MD, and James B. Powell, MD. I’d like to nominate another physician to this list: Marc D. Grodman, MD. During the 1970s and 1980…
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Volume XXXII, No. 7 – May 12, 2025
Economic, Tech changes drive lab concerns, The Dark Report provides insights from the Executive War College speakers about how clinical labs can use business strategies and tactics to handle the new tariffs, future regulations, and artificial intelligence (AI). Also, this issue provides guidance on how labs and pathologists should prepare for payer audits.
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