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West Hills Hospital Lab Hits Outreach Home Run
CEO SUMMARY: Popular wisdom says that California’s managed care market is a financial disaster for clinical laboratories. Yet here’s an exciting story about a community hospital that launched a brand-new laboratory outreach program in 1997 and found solid success. During the last two …
Outsourcing Lab Outreach Leads to Better Service
CEO SUMMARY: Many hospital laboratories continue to endure non-stop cutbacks to staffing and funding. The success of the recently instituted laboratory testing outreach program at West Hills Hospital and Medical Center validates that the market continues to reward labs willing to offer ad…
Ten Myths of Lab Management That Led the Clinical Lab Industry Astray
Part One of a Special Series CEO SUMMARY: One of our most popular series ever was the “13 Perilous Parallels” of laboratory management. This four-part story appeared in 1996 and chronicled similar management strategies used by various national laboratories during the…
Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp Face an Evolving Marketplace
TWO OF THE THREE BLOOD BROTHERS reported continued improvement in their financial condition as second quarter earnings reports were made public. This news, however, was overshadowed by speculation about the failure of Quest Diagnostics Incorporated to consummate its purchase of …
“August 9, 1999 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Contrast the double digit premium increases demanded by HMOs for 1999 and 2000 with the recent Medicare announcement. Medicare will add 1.1% to hospital payments for overnight stays as this year’s inflation adjustment. With annual inflation under 2%, it certainly causes one to wonder what HMOs real…
Associated Pathologists Laboratories Pursues Drugs of Abuse Testing
CEO SUMMARY: Since 1994, Las Vegas-based Associated Pathologists Laboratories has carved a thriving business from drugs of abuse testing. Its fast-growing toxicology business is built around a full-service menu of testing services. This includes a patented drug screen based upon testing h…
Wedding Between AutoCyte and NeoPath Will Spawn A Single Prep/Screen System
CEO SUMMARY: Various technologies that automate cytology and Pap smear screening entered the clinical marketplace during the last four years. Because managed healthcare views new technology with a more skeptical eye than fee-for-service healthcare, THE DARK REPORT has provided extensive a…
Healtheon and WebMD Merger Portends Changes to Lab Testing
SO FAR CLINICAL LAB EXECUTIVES have yet to see any profound changes that Internet-based services might cause to existing laboratory practices and procedures. That situation may change, however, with the merger of Healtheon Corporation of Santa Clara, California and WebMD, In…
Choosing a Eulogy for SBCL
What is an appropriate eulogy for SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories (SBCL), soon to be acquired by …
Quest and SBCL Expect Merger Date Of July 2
CEO SUMMARY: After months of waiting and planning, executives at Quest Diagnostics Incorporated believe that July 2, 1999 will be the date when their acquisition of SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories becomes official. During the month of July, expect a flurry of activity at Quest Di…
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Volume XXXIII, No. 4 – March 23, 2026
A federal court ruling has established a safe harbor for clinical labs when they run tests ordered by physicians. Lab leaders should examine this briefing for pitfalls. Also, it turns out that providers may be ordering inappropriate vitamin D tests, according to one expert.
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