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Jamaica Med Techs, Kaiser Permanente, Cytyc, Myriad Genetics, Bayer, CLMA
By Robert Michel | From the Volume X No. 2 – February 10, 2003 Issue
MEDICAL TECHNOLOGISTS IN JAMAICA STAGE WALK-OUT IN JANUARY LABORATORY TECHS ARE NOT KNOWN to be a radical component of the labor movement. But that doesn’t seem to be the case in Jamaica, where more than 80 of that country’s medical technologists walked off their jobs twice in January in…
Specialty Progresses With CA Lab Regulators
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IX No. 10 – July 15, 2002 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Earlier this month California laboratory regulators found Specialty Laboratories, Inc. to be “in substantial compliance with California clinical laboratory law.” This is an important milestone in restoring the lab company to full compliance with both state and federal labor…
Clinical Labs Discover Benchmarking
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume IX No. 1 – January 7, 2002 Issue
IN OUR MANY YEARS OF SERVICE to the clinical lab industry and the pathology profession, THE DARK REPORT has consistently been first to identify important trends and explain their relevance to those responsible for managing the nation’s laboratories. Back in 1995, we predicted that the (then) thre…
Institute of Medicine Calls For 12 Medicare Lab Reforms
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VIII No. 6 – April 30, 2001 Issue
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…
“February 5, 2001 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VIII No. 2 – February 5, 2001 Issue
This time the Clinical Laboratory Management Association (CLMA) looked in its own backyard to find a Executive Director. On Monday, February 12, Robert Neri will begin his responsibilities at CLMA. Not only does Neri have a long career in laboratory management, but he lives in the Ph…
Beware What Your Lab Competitor is Doing!
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume VII No. 15 – October 23, 2000 Issue
TODAY I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK SPECIFICALLY to hospital lab administrators and owners of independent commercial laboratories. I would like to offer some friendly counsel: it’s time to pay careful attention to the most successful of your laboratory competitors. Undeniable evidence is mounting that tra…
“October 23, 2000 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VII No. 15 – October 23, 2000 Issue
Get ready for the stock market to begin creating multi-millionaires from today’s generation of commercial laboratory executives. Most laboratorians know that Roche sold $430.5 million of its stock holding in Laboratory Corporation of America stock only seven days a…
“May 30, 2000 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VII No. 8 – May 30, 2000 Issue
Expect an announcement this week that Pathology Consultants of America, Inc. (PCA), based in Nashville, Tennessee, has acquired PathSOURCE, Inc. of Port Chester, New York. Both are single specialty physician practice management (PPM) companies devoted exclusively to …
LabCorp Buys Two More California Laboratories
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VII No. 7 – May 8, 2000 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Laboratory Corporation of America is serving notice that it intends to increase its competitive presence in California, the largest market for diagnostic testing in the United States. It recently signed agreements to purchase two respected independent laboratory companies, on…
New Blood Entering the Lab Industry
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume VII No. 2 – January 24, 2000 Issue
SURPRISE! THERE’S A QUIET MANAGEMENT REVOLUTION UNDER WAY in both the clinical laboratory industry and pathology profession. During the past few years, a steady flow of new-thinking Presidents and CEOs have taken control of laboratories, pathology group practices, and vendor companies. From CEO Ke…
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