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Making a Difference in Tangible Ways
HOW OFTEN DOES SOMETHING you learn from THE DARK REPORT make a positive difference in your laboratory? We hear lots of examples from our clients and regular readers and I’d like to share two of them with you today. The first example comes from our special, exclusive, and expanded coverage about an…
UnitedHealth’s Decision Reveals Lab Market Shift
CEO SUMMARY: News that UnitedHealth Group, Inc. added Esoterix, Inc. to its national laboratory services contract is a big story. UnitedHealth’s decision to expand the laboratory panel demonstrates that factors other than lowest price played an important role. The move to supplement its…
Esoterix & UnitedHealth Sign National Test Pact
CEO SUMMARY: Just when it is assumed that the two blood brothers have a lock on national lab testing contracts with the nation’s biggest payers, Esoterix inks an agreement with UnitedHealth Group. This now positions Esoterix to offer its higher-end reference and esoteric testing to hosp…
Digene, Kaiser Northern California, ARUP Labs, Bio-Reference Labs, Specialty Labs
DIGENE ENJOYS GROWTH OF 39% IN RECENT MONTHS FUELED BY RECOGNITION that HPV plays a key role in causing cervical cancer, demand for Digene Corporation’s hc2 High-Risk HPV DNA test is increasing at impressive rates. For fiscal third quarter 2004, Digene reported revenue gr…
Federal Government Leading March to Universal EMR
CEO SUMMARY: On April 26, 2004, President George W. Bush announced a new goal for the nation: an electronic medical record (EMR) for every patient within ten years. Last July, THE DARK REPORT predicted that the federal government would take the lead role in pushing healthcare to adopt a u…
Price Discount Practices May Prove Troublesome
CEO SUMMARY: Some laboratories continue to offer deeply-discounted prices to the nation’s largest managed care plans as a way to maintain provider status and keep market share. In one case, these deep discounts surprised a long-time lab executive, who decided to share the information, a…
LabOne in Cincinnati: Watch Events Unfold
CEO SUMMARY: It’s another example of a commercial laboratory taking over the laboratory assets of a multi-hospital consolidated laboratory. Will LabOne manage these assets and get more growth, more cost savings, and more profit? If this happens, it will mark the third time in r…
LabOne Speaks Out About Use of “Free Testing”
DEAR EDITOR, In the August 26, 2002 issue of THE DARK REPORT, an article appeared entitled, “Two Blood Brothers Use ‘Free Testing’ Strategy.” In markets that we are “in-network” with various payers, this tactic of providing free testing is increasingly prevalent. While t…
2003’s Big Lab Stories Reflect Health Trends
CEO SUMMARY: At a minimum, 2003 proved to be a year of relative stability for the laboratory industry, as demonstrated by THE DARK REPORT’S “Ten Biggest Lab Stories of 2003.” The year was free of industry-wide crises and scan- dals. That allowed most laboratory administrators and pa…
Who’s Buying Labs? Activity Shifts Down
CEO SUMMARY: As the number of independent clinical laboratories dwindles, most remaining owners seem content to continue building their business—at least until a buyer makes them an offer “they can’t refuse.” Acquisitions of pathology group practices were also few in number during…
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Volume XXXII, No. 6 – April 21, 2025
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