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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…
California’s Rumor Mill Links LabCorp & Unilab
CEO SUMMARY: Continued financial pressure on all laboratories operating in California leads some industry observers to believe that Laboratory Corporation of America and Unilab might be considering some kind of deal between the two companies. Senior executives at both laboratories say suc…
California’s Lab Market To Undergo More Change
CEO SUMMARY: Every laboratory in California continues to operate in a financially-punishing environment. Further shake-outs must occur as the economic forces unleashed by managed care take their toll on clinical laboratories. Expect radical changes to occur within the next 12 months….
Consolidation At Presbyterian Encourages Regional Strategy
CEO SUMMARY: Presbyterian Laboratory Services represents one of the more advanced business models of laboratory consolidation found today in the United States. Owned by an integrated delivery system, the laboratory division serves six hospitals and a variety of outreach clients. Several e…
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Volume XXXIII, No. 4 – March 23, 2026
A federal court ruling has established a safe harbor for clinical labs when they run tests ordered by physicians. Lab leaders should examine this briefing for pitfalls. Also, it turns out that providers may be ordering inappropriate vitamin D tests, according to one expert.
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