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FL Medicaid Lab Bid Gets Slammed By Foes
CEO SUMMARY: Florida laboratories were caught by surprise last month when state Medicaid officials announced a 28-day process to award one lab with the state’s non-hospital Medicaid testing. To fight this RFP, a growing coalition of laboratories, lab industry trade groups, and the Flori…
Lab Contracting Fracas In British Columbia
CEO SUMMARY: Government healthcare officials in British Columbia are taking definitive steps to recast the existing status quo between private commercial laboratory companies and public (government) hospital laboratories in the province. Although the stated goals are to reduce the cost of…
Department of Defense and VA Prepare to Pool Health Data
IT’S ANOTHER IMPORTANT STEP on the road to a true “universal patient medical record.” Two government agencies are preparing to consolidate access to separate pools of healthcare data. Earlier this week, the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Veterans Aff…
Competitive Bidding: A Growing Threat to Labs
CEO SUMMARY: When it comes to competitive bidding for laboratory testing services, Medicare is no longer the only government health program looking to save money through this method. Florida’s Medicaid program and the British Columbia health system are both moving forward with plans to …
Arguing in Favor of Regional Laboratory Networks
TWO STORIES IN THIS ISSUE OF THE DARK REPORT DEMONSTRATE why regional laboratory networks are a business model which should be revisited by hospital laboratories with outreach programs. Seattle provides a great example of how an existing laboratory network gives hospitals in that region an addition…
Florida Issues State RFP For Sole Medicaid Lab
CEO SUMMARY: If competitive bidding for Medicare business is something universally viewed as bad by the laboratory industry, then the lab services RFP issued by Florida’s Medicaid program must be considered a serious threat to the status quo. Further, the fact that Medicaid officials in…
LabCorp Buys MDS Labs In New York and Georgia
CEO SUMMARY: It’s the final chapter of the “Canadian Invasion” of the U.S. laboratory testing market. In the mid-1990s, both MDS and Dynacare built a sizeable presence in the United States as they both worked to develop joint ventures with hospital laboratories. Dynacare was acquire…
Seattle Hospital Lab JVs Involve Quest & LabCorp
CEO SUMMARY: Joint ventures and collaborative business relationships between hospital laboratories and commercial laboratories continue to be a difficult business model. Recent events in Seattle demonstrate the challenges and frustrations of establishing such ventures, then making them su…
Welsh Carson Pays $1.14 Billion To Acquire U.S. Oncology, Inc.
EVEN AS THE LAST ISSUE of THE DARK REPORT was reaching clients with news of Genzyme Corp.’s offer to buy IMPATH Inc., another big oncology deal was announced. On March 22, 2004, Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe announced an offer of $15.05 per …
AmeriPath Reports on 2003, Its First Year as a Private Firm
WILL BUSINESS BE BETTER for AmeriPath, Inc. as a private company than it was as a publicly-traded firm? Its 2003 financial report indicates some interesting challenges, many common to all laboratories. First, a look at basic numbers. AmeriPath’s net revenues grew from $478.8 milli…
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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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