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“August 30, 2004 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Film-maker Michael Moore is ready to turn his cameras on the American healthcare system. During a tour of the United Kingdom this summer, the controversial director declared that he wanted to use his cameras to intervene and save lives. Moore, basking in the attention generated by his Fahrenheit …
Part II: Path Condo Labs As A Threat to Pathology
SPECIALIST PHYSICIAN GROUPS are taking active steps to capture anatomic pathology (AP) revenues that result from specimens generated by their groups’ patients. Yet the anatomic pathology profession is only now awakening to this threat. To educate and alert pathologists and their group practice adm…
LabCorp’s Smith Speaks On New Pathology Trend
CEO SUMMARY: During the past decade, Laboratory Corporation of America’s Brad Smith faced the spear point of evolving Medicare/Medicaid compliance initiatives which changed so many laboratory industry business practices. Smith believes that business models for in-house anatomic patholog…
Peeking Into Finances Of Pathology Lab Condos
CEO SUMMARY: In the possession of THE DARK REPORT is a copy of revenue and expense projections shown by a pathology condo laboratory complex promoter to prospective urology groups. They project that even smaller urology groups can realize worthwhile income if they invest in a pathology co…
Pathology Consultants See In-House AP Trend Unfolding
LOCAL PATHOLOGY GROUP PRACTICES are themselves the “canary in the coal mine” to provide early warning about the exploding interest of specialist physicians at capturing the anatomic pathology (AP) revenues generated by their patients. THE DARK REPORT interviewed three consultants, each of whom s…
Exposed: Who Created Path Lab Condo Scheme
CEO SUMMARY: It wasn’t pathologists and it wasn’t laboratory executives who started this scheme. Anatomic pathology condominium laboratory complexes were conceived by urologists in Florida. Some Texas urologists jumped on the bandwagon early, becoming enthusiastic promoters of the sch…
Two Blockbuster Stories to Rock the Lab Industry!
WOW! YOU HAVE TWO BLOCKBUSTER STORIES covered in this issue, which expanded into extra pages to bring you all the news and detailed analysis. Our lead story, on the facing page, is first news in the laboratory industry of criminal indictments of three ex-UroCor executives for laborat…
Ex-UroCor Execs Face Criminal Indictments
CEO SUMMARY: Criminal charges filed against ex-UroCor executives center around several marketing practices that have much in common with marketing strategies used by many lab- oratories today. These include discounted pricing for non-Medicare specimens, offering to waive charges to payers…
Linking UroCor Indictments With Specialist Doc Pathology
IS THE TIMING of the criminal indictments of three ex-UroCor executives going to be a fortuitous event for the anatomic pathology profession? I ask this question because the exploding trend of specialist physician groups internalizing anatomic pathology services was slated to be the…
Urology & GI Physicians Bring Pathology In-House
CEO SUMMARY: Increasing numbers of urology and gastroenterology specialist groups are deciding to bring anatomic pathology services in-house. This phenomenon has gathered speed during the past year and is becoming a threat to the long-term financial and clinical stability of the anatomic …
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