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Consolidation Within the Auto Industry
As our system of healthcare evolves in this country, I am continually amazed at how many market dynamics we share with other industries. Take the issue of too many hospital beds and too much laboratory capacity. With inpatient utilization declining, with laboratory reimbursement shrinking, both hospi…
“State of Lab Industry” Reveals Radical Change
CEO SUMMARY: Pick your trend: declining reimbursement, consolidation, clinical integration, downsizing, and capitated reimbursement. These trends all continued to shape the way laboratories organized to provide services. But 1997’s wildcard was the federal government. Between investigat…
Quest Announces Major Restructuring for 1998
CEO SUMMARY: Recognizing the reality of laboratory over-capacity in the marketplace, Quest Diagnostics Incorporated intends to align its laboratory capacity with existing specimen volumes. In so doing, it’s taking a progressive step and moving more aggressively than its two national com…
Physician Solutions Gets Venture Capital Funding
CEO SUMMARY: Physician Solutions becomes the second pathology-based physician practice management company to receive venture capital funding. The company is poised to acquire a number of pathology practices in cities throughout the United States. It is another sign that traditional pathol…
“December 8, 1997 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Fast-growing specialty test provider SpectraCell Laboratories, Inc. of Houston, Texas announced the acquisition of Southwest Hemostasis and Oncology Consultants, Inc. (SHOC) of Dallas, Texas. SpectraCell offers assays that perform functional intracellular analyses of…
Hitting Financial Bottom
During the last three years, financial news from the clinical laboratory industry has generally been bad. Two things attracted the media’s attention. Multi-million dollar Medicare fraud settlements involving laboratories got widespread notoriety. Financial losses at public laboratories attracted le…
Tenet, SBCL Discussing 33 Hospital Lab Contract
CEO SUMMARY: Tenet Healthcare’s decision to entertain proposals for improving laboratory operations in its Southern California division triggered a year-long discussion with national laboratories. If a deal results, it would represent one of the largest “re-engineering” projects bet…
Pathology As A Business: Experts Highlight Issues
CEO SUMMARY: A select group of business-minded pathologists broke new ground last week in Scottsdale, Arizona. Candid discussion about the profession’s most sensitive issues provoked a variety of strategies. Among the topics were declining reimbursement, arbitrary contract pricing for A…
Regional Growth Strategy Guides Presbyterian Labs Services
CEO SUMMARY: Here’s a consolidated laboratory organization serving six hospitals and an extensive outreach program. As described in the first installment of this two-p art series, Presbyterian Laboratory Services actively reshaped itself into a well-run asset for its parent healthcare s…
Market Upheavals Around The Corner
In reviewing the galley proofs for this issue of THE DARK REPORT, I am struck by the potential for significant market upheaval in two areas of laboratory medicine: pathology and the clinical laboratory marketplace of California. The stories about AmeriPath, Inc. and California labora…
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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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