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Lab Venture in Houston To Include a New Partner
CEO SUMMARY: For months, lab industry rumors said the Memorial-Hermann merger had killed the Dynacare-Hermann Hospital laboratory joint venture, despite its sustained profitability. Now comes news that the Memorial Hermann Healthcare System and Dynacare will expand the laboratory joint ve…
Revamped Houston JV Validates Industry Trend
CEO SUMMARY: Change is notoriously slow in both the hospital and the clinical laboratory industry. The announcement of a revamped laboratory joint venture between Houston’s Memorial Hermann Healthcare System and Dynacare demonstrates that market pressures continue to encourage the ratio…
FDA Wants Abbott Labs To Toe Regulatory Line
CEO SUMMARY: In the short term, it’s Abbott Laboratories which must deal with increasingly aggressive FDA regulators. But the real story behind the story is that the FDA is stepping up regulatory oversight of the entire diagnostics industry. Abbott faces serious consequences if it canno…
“October 11, 1999 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Here’s a hats-off to Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics (OCD). At a time when everything in the healthcare system seems to be taking things away from clinical laboratories, OCD has organized a worthwhile laboratory management best practices day for its most loyal customers. Started four ye…
Bi-Coastal Powerhouse Formed by Lab Merger
CEO SUMMARY: Changes to healthcare continue to stimulate responses from independent commercial laboratories. This time it’s a merger of Las Vegas-based Associated Pathologists Laboratories with American Medical Laboratories of Chantilly, Virginia. This combination creates the third-larg…
Capitated Contracts Losing Favor Within the Hospital Industry
IT APPEARS THAT AN INCREASING number of hospitals in mature managed care markets like California and Colorado are rejecting capitated managed care contracts. If future events verify this trend, the experience of hospitals may demonstrate a way for clinical laboratories to reject capitated arrangemen…
Pathologist Income Symposium, Healtheon, Biogenetics, Healthworks Alliance
PATHOLOGIST INCOME SYMPOSIUM DATES ARE NOVEMBER 12-13, 1999 SCOTTSDALE IS AGAIN SLATED TO HOST the upcoming private Pathologist Income Symposium, scheduled for November 12-13, 1999. This year’s symposium tackles the toughest of all topics: increasing the compensation paid by hosp…
Don’t Take Your Eyes Off the Ball!
HOW MANY OF US HAD A FATHER WHO TAUGHT US THE BASICS OF BASEBALL almost as soon as we learned to walk? I can still remember my father repeatedly advising me “don’t take your eyes off the ball!” With the recent merger of Quest Diagnostics Incorporated and SmithKline Bee…
Reference Labs Intensify Battle for Send-Out Tests
CEO SUMMARY: Expect a battle royale for hospital reference and esoteric testing by the handful of labs that offer such testing to hospitals throughout the country. With the merger of Quest Diagnostics Incorporated and SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories now a fact, competitors are al…
Kaiser’s National Lab Business Awarded to American Medical Laboratories
MANY EXECUTIVES in the laboratory industry will be surprised to learn that American Medical Laboratories, Inc. (AML) of Chantilly, Virginia has aced out Quest Diagnostics Incorporated to become the primary reference laboratory for all divisions of Kaiser Perm…
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