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Quest Diagnostics, Labcorp Issue Q4 and Full Year 2024 Earnings
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 3 – February 17, 2025 Issue
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
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 14 – October 14, 2024 Issue
LAST MONTH, CONGRESS ONCE AGAIN DEFERRED MEDICARE REIMBURSEMENT CUTS OF UP TO 15% f…
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…
Identifying Current Lab Trends from Labcorp & Quest Experience
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 11 – August 12, 2024 Issue
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?
By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXVI No. 1 – January 14, 2019 Issue
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
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVI No. 1 – January 14, 2019 Issue
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
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXV No. 17 – December 3, 2018 Issue
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?
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXV No. 12 – August 20, 2018 Issue
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
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII No. 15 – November 7, 2016 Issue
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
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXIII No. 4 – March 21, 2016 Issue
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. 6 – April 21, 2025
Now that a federal judge has vacated the FDA’s LDT rule, The Dark Report analyzes the judgement and notes the various steps the FDA could take in response. Also, lab testing at pharmacies is proving to be less successful than was once anticipated.
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