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Hospital System Acquires Labs In ACO Strategy

CEO SUMMARY: Moving to deliver services as an accountable care organization (ACO), Genesis Health System of Davenport, Iowa, has acquired the laboratory assets in two hospitals previously operated by Metropolitan Medical Laboratory, PLC, a lab company owned by local patho…

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Louisiana Pathologists ā€˜Moonlightā€™ as Consultants

CEO SUMMARY: Few independent pathology groups have developed robust laboratory consulting businesses. But adopting that strategy has brought important benefits to Delta Pathology Group, LLC, of Shreveport, Louisiana. Not only has providing lab consulting services to cash-strapped hospital…

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Halfpenny Technologies Buys Laboratory Management Services

TO BROADEN ITS CAPABILITIES in handling laboratory test data, Halfpenny Technologies, Inc., announced the acquisition of Laboratory Management Services (LMS) of Hauppauge, New York, earlier this month. Halfpenny seems to be particularly interested in the informatics…

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August 18, 2008 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

Thereā€™s a new lab company in New York City. Manhattan Physicians Laboratory, Inc. (MPL) was recently launched by two former executives from Quest Diagnostics Incorporated. Thomas Golubic is MPLā€™s President and William Nouri is Vice President and Lab Operations Di…

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Using a 1997 Bid Model In a 2007 Health Market

CEO SUMMARY: Itā€™s been a long path from concept to implementation for a competitive bidding demonstration involving clinical lab services. It was in the mid-1980s when CMS commenced work on designing such a demonstration. In the 1990s, RTI International continued devel…

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Is CMS Playing ā€œBait and Switchā€ in San Diego?

ATTEMPTING TO WRITE THE ASSESSMENTĀ of the Medicare Clinical Lab Services Competitive Demonstration Project that you will read in this issue earned a unique distinction: since our founding in 1995, this has been the sin…

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Roche Diagnostics, Ventana Medical, Aetna, Medicare Competitive Bid Demo

NEW CEO NAMED AT ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS, VENTANA OFFER EXTENDED LAST WEEK, ROCHE HOLDINGS AG announced the appointment of JĆ¼rgen Schwiezer to become CEO of Roche Diagnostics, effective January 1, 2008. He succeeds Severin Schwa…

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Memphis Path Lab JV Purchased By AEL

CEO SUMMARY: Memphis Pathology Labsā€™ two hospital owners and their JV partner, MDS, surprised many with the sale of the lab venture to American Esoteric Laboratories (AEL). Itā€™s the end of a successful joint venture between several hospitals and a commercial laboratory company. It als…

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Institute of Medicine Calls For 12 Medicare Lab Reforms

CEO SUMMARY: Since 1987, the clinical lab industry has endured almost non-stop cuts in the absolute level of Medicare reimbursement for lab testing. But the time may be ripe for laboratories to work together to effect far-reaching reforms to Medicare laboratory payment policies. Just as t…

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Healtheon Already Choice Of Public Lab Companies

CEO SUMMARY: Probably no single individual has greater insight about the changes now occurring to web-based laboratory test ordering and results reporting than Healtheon Corporationā€™s Nancy Ham. As Vice President of Connectivity & Institutional Services, Nancy is responsible for Hea…

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