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CDC Surveys Docs’ Use of Laboratory Test Results
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XIX No. – October 8, 2012 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: There’s a treasure trove of information and insights about how physicians use clinical laboratory tests contained in survey data recently collected by a team from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Designed to identify challenges in how physicians utilize labor…
Ampersand Buys Calloway Labs, Enters Pain Management Market
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIX No. – October 8, 2012 Issue
URINE DRUG TESTING for pain management may be a challenging business for clinical labs given that compliance officers in the states and in the federal government have successfully pursued lab compliance abuses in this line of business in recent years. Now comes news that private equity firm …
Competitive Bidding: Once Again, It’s Back!
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIX No. 13 – September 17, 2012 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: For the clinical lab industry, the concept of competitive bidding for Medicare Part B Clinical Lab Testing may be like the movie “Groundhog Day.” The hero, Bill Murray, kept reliving the same day over and over. So it seems to be with competitive bidding. In the latest rep…
April 2, 2012 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIX No. 5 – April 2, 2012 Issue
Like a tenacious bulldog, Roche Holding AG continues its determined effort to acquire Illumina, Inc., the company that makes gene sequencing systems. Last week, Roche increased its offer from $44.50 per share to $51 per share for Illumina stock. That raises the price…
Today’s Lab Test Model Won’t Survive Reforms
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIX No. 4 – March 12, 2012 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: For more than three decades, independent lab companies have waxed fat by increasing their respective market share of lab test referrals from office-based physicians. This era is poised to end as growing numbers of office-based physicians begin to practice medicine within an a…
Shaw & Adelman Successful Support of Lab Networks Need Hospital Leadership
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XIX No. 3 – February 20, 2012 Issue
CEO Summary: In the second installment of our exclusive two- part interview, the executive directors of two regional laboratory networks formed in the 1990s (one in Michigan and one in Washington State) share their assessment of why their respective lab networks have performed strongly ov…
Roche Offers $5.7 Billion To Acquire Illumina Inc.
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XIX No. 2 – January 30, 2012 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Once again, Roche is hunting for gene sequencing and gene analysis technology that can support its goal of being a world leader in gene-based therapeutics and clinical lab testing that utilizes gene tests and molecular diagnostics. Last week, Roche launched a hostile stock te…
From Modest Beginnings, Two Lab Networks Find Success
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIX No. 2 – January 30, 2012 Issue
“For 20 years, our regional laboratory network here in Detroit has played an important role in helping member …
2011’s Top 10 Lab Stories Point to a Busy 2012
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIX No. 1 – January 9, 2012 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Given the specific news stories that make up THE DARK REPORT’S list of the “Top Ten Lab Stories for 2011,” it might be said that 2011 was a rather quiet year overshadowed by anticipation of the coming reforms mandated by the Accountable Care Act of 2010. For the clinica…
Molecular Code Stacks Now in the Payers’ Bull’s Eye
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XVIII No. 16 – November 28, 2011 Issue
LIKE A STEAM BOILER READY TO EXPLODE FROM TOO MUCH PRESSURE, the nation’s health insurers have reached a point of no return on the subject of code-stacked claims for genetic testing and molecular diagnostics assays. Simply put, payers are ready to tackle this sensitive issue. Payers have reasonabl…
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