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Connecticut Hospital Labs Win HMO Test Contracts
CEO SUMMARY: Connecticut Hospital Laboratory Network, LLC was formed in 1996 with the specific goal of winning managed care lab testing contracts. During the past five years it has steadily increased the number of patients covered by such contracts. Along the way, it has learned important…
Lab Competitors Form Common Test Data Repository for Doctors
CEO SUMMARY: Integrated hospital systems, government health plans and private insurers can frequently threaten the status quo for commercial laboratories in both the United States and Canada. Motivated by the desire to offer greater value, two commercial lab companies in British Columbia …
Bio-Reference Labs, Sunquest, Beckman Coulter, Vysis
BIO-REFERENCE LABS REPORTS STRONG GROWTH IN REVENUE & EARNINGS LIKE MOST PUBLIC LAB COMPANIES, the financial news continues to be good at Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc., based in Elmwood Park, NJ. For second quarter ending April 30, 2001, the lab reported revenues of …
LIS Sales Decline in 2000 As Labs Shift Emphasis
CEO SUMMARY: THE DARK REPORT’S annual ranking of the Top Ten LIS Vendors reveals that sales of new LIS products declined for the second consecutive year. This is evidence that the influence of multi-hospital health systems is changing the way LIS is purchased and implemented. It is also…
Esoterix, Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic, California Hospitals, Myriad Genetics
ESOTERIX, INC. LAUNCHES TEST REPORTS VIA WEB BROWSER WEB-ACCESSED LAB TEST REPORTING is now available at Esoterix, Inc., based in Austin, Texas. The accomplishment represents a major milestone for the lab company. It now has a common lab test reporting capability that draws…
UnitedHealth Using Lab Data To Improve Health Outcomes
CEO SUMMARY: Managed Care is shifting into a new operational model that places prime emphasis on using clinical information to drive improvements in the quality of healthcare. At UnitedHealth Group, one of the nation’s largest health insurers, early efforts to analyze clinical data have…
Investors Pump $107 Million Into Unilab’s Stock Offering
HERE’S ENCOURAGING NEWS for owners of independent regional laboratories: investors on Wall Street continue to like the laboratory business…a lot! Latest confirmation of this fact came on June 6, when Unilab Corporation of Tarzana, California funded its initial public offering (I…
Lab Owners Selling Stock To Harvest Big Profits
CEO SUMMARY: Three huge stock sales involving the nation’s largest laboratories have been announced in recent weeks. If these stock sales are enthusiastically received by Wall Street investors, independent regional lab owners may benefit because of higher valuations for clinical laborat…
Unilab Files Registration For IPO of $115 Million
CEO SUMMARY: During the 1990s, Unilab used the twin strategies of lab acquisitions and aggressive sales and marketing to fuel rapid growth in specimen volumes and net revenues. However, California’s ultra-competitive managed care market and severe financial problems during the latter ha…
Changing Lab Industry Trends Identified at War College
CEO SUMMARY: Clinical laboratories and pathology group practices are beginning to respond to a new set of marketplace trends. Speaker after speaker at this EXECUTIVE WAR COLLEGE included new business strategies not heard in past years. Probably the most notable difference is a growing emp…
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Volume XXXII, No. 15 – October 27, 2025
The Dark Report examines the momentous decision by the VA to switch accreditors from The Joint Commission to CAP. Also, we analyze retractions in pathology journals to gain insight into scientific fraud.
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