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Specialty Labs Prepares For Public Stock Offering
CEO SUMMARY: Stock prices for public lab companies zoomed upwards through 2000. For this reason, executives at Specialty Laboratories, Inc. believe it is an auspicious time for their laboratory to bring an initial public offering (IPO) to market. Company officials recently filed a stock r…
Bill Bonello Sees Opportunities In Diagnostic Services Companies
CEO SUMMARY: With the clinical laboratory industry now enjoying growing interest by professional investors, THE DARK REPORT traveled to New York City to meet with financial analyst William B. Bonello, of U S Bancorp Piper Jaffray. Bonello co-authored a just-released overview of what he ca…
Is it Early-90s “Deja Vu” For Today’s Lab Industry?
CEO SUMMARY: Stock prices for laboratory and pathology companies have skyrocketed since the new decade of the 2000s dawned on January 1. Is investor optimism warranted by the opportunities ahead in diagnostic testing? Or will history repeat itself if the continuing evolution of American h…
Lab Industry Attracting New Investment Dollars
CEO SUMMARY: Professional investors with access to hundreds of millions of dollars of investment capital are closely scrutinizing the clinical laboratory industry. They are encouraged by the recent financial performance of public laboratory companies. For independent laboratory owners, th…
Several Labs Planning A Public Stock Offering
CEO SUMMARY: During the past six years, no general clinical laboratory company has undergone an initial public stock offering (IPO). That will certainly change during the next 24 months. There are several private lab companies which want to go public. But this business strategy can only s…
Lab “Home Brews” Web Solution for Test Results
CEO SUMMARY: Internet-enabled lab test ordering and results reporting may help independent commercial labs and hospital laboratory outreach programs become more competitive against the two blood brothers. In eastern Pennsylvania, Clinical Laboratories, Inc. introduced Web-based lab test r…
Investors Returning To Lab Industry
SOMETHING BIG IS HAPPENING to the clinical laboratory industry and the anatomic pathology profession. For the first time in six or seven years, the investment community is paying close attention to the laboratory industry. This should be a welcome development for commercial lab owners and anatomic …
1-For-10 Reverse Stock Split Boosts LabCorp’s Share Price
MAY PROVED TO BE an auspicious time for Laboratory Corporation of America to restructure its equity base. In the process, it’s positioning itself to be a tougher competitor in the lab testing marketplace. Ever since the company was first created by the merger of Roche Biom…
“June 19, 2000 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
At DIANON Systems, Inc., recent growth in revenues and profits may cost the anatomic pathology company its independence. In recent weeks there’s been widespread speculation that DIANON may be involved in some type of acquisition or merger negotiations. At various times, each of the…
Independent California Lab Decides to Exit Business
CEO SUMMARY: Market forces in California continue to put independent laboratories under sustained financial stress. One laboratory owner decided it was an auspicious time to sell his lab. That sale, of POISONLAB to Laboratory Corporation of America, was announced earlier this month. There…
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Volume XXXII, No. 13 – September 15, 2025
The Dark Report examines a new bill that would reform PAMA and avoid reimbursement rate cuts scheduled for January 2026. Clinical laboratory leaders are urged to make their voices heard in Congress. Also, an expert describes how labs can fix pre-analytical errors and avoid disaster.
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