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WellPoint Health Networks Offers To Buy Aetna For $10.5 Billion
TAKING ADVANTAGE of a weak share price for Aetna, Inc., two major corporations sent an unsolicited tender offer to the Aetna board. The joint bid was submitted by WellPoint Health Insurance Networks Inc. of Thousand Oaks, California, and ING Group NV, a Dutch insura…
AmeriPath Pursues Ambitious Strategy Of Rapid Expansion
CEO SUMMARY: As the pathology profession’s only publicly-traded physician practice management company, AmeriPath is the spear point of far-reaching changes now transforming pathology. With an annual revenue run rate of $270 million and an ample war chest of growth capital, AmeriPath int…
Park City Solutions, DIANON, IMPATH American Med Labs, Cytyc, TriPath Imaging
PARK CITY SOLUTIONS AND AMERICAN MEDICAL LABS CREATE STRATEGIC PACT TWO COMPANIES FINANCED by GTCR Golder Rauner, LLC, the private equity firm based in Chicago, announced a strategic relationship. Park City Solutions, Inc. of Park City, Utah and Ame…
“March 6, 2000 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Interesting things are afoot at Esoterix, Inc., the Austin, Texas-based parent company for six specialty laboratories. President and CEO Charles L Dufesche, M.D. recently left. The new CEO is James McClintic. Esoterix has plans to become a public company and has been shopping its IPO…
Quantum Dots Targeting Multiplexed Bioassays
CEO SUMMARY: Here’s another exciting new technology which promises to expand the capabilities of diagnostic testing while lowering laboratory costs. Based on research originally done during the 1970’s, quantum dotsâ„¢ are nanometer-sized semiconductors with unique properties. Quantum …
Abaton’s Web Solution In Use at Allina, Centrex
CEO SUMMARY: Abaton.com was among the first companies to actually have Web-based information products linking hospital labs and physician offices. As early as 1997, the Allina Health System was working with Abaton.com to implement a laboratory test requisition/test results system using We…
Single-Specialty Path PPMs Posting Strong Growth, Profits
CEO SUMMARY: Although the financial travails of the physician practice management (PPM) industry are widely known, there is little recognition that a number of single-specialty PPMs are doing well. This is true of pathology, where at least six pathology-based PPMs still remain in business…
Client Bill Pricing Policy Rises To Medicare Level
CEO SUMMARY: Within the laboratory industry, there has been a decade-long debate over whether offering discount prices in client bill states could violate some Medicare regulations. UroCor, Inc. decided that an OIG opinion issued in December to a pathology company signaled a potential cha…
New Blood Entering the Lab Industry
SURPRISE! THERE’S A QUIET MANAGEMENT REVOLUTION UNDER WAY in both the clinical laboratory industry and pathology profession. During the past few years, a steady flow of new-thinking Presidents and CEOs have taken control of laboratories, pathology group practices, and vendor companies. From CEO Ke…
Pathology Profession Facing New Directions
CEO SUMMARY: Big changes ahead during the next decade. Among the predictions: the number of two and three-pathologist group practices will radically diminish; pathology centers of excellence will achieve new market dominance; and…ever more intense competition for anatomic pathology spec…
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Volume XXXII, No. 10 – July 14, 2025
This issue is strong on different flavors of enforcement that clinical laboratories, whether they want to or not, will need to contend with. Lab stakeholders provide insights that medical labs need to brace for more action to counter pending test reimbursement rate cuts under PAMA. Also, this issue provides the legal and regulatory landscape for clinical labs’ use of AI and how it evolves with the technology. AI is creating legal uncertainty for clinical labs, especially around data privacy and FDA oversight of AI tools in diagnostics.
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