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“December 4, 2000 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Evidence continues to grow that consumers are using the Internet to actively intervene in their health care. The Pew Foundation released a report last week that says 52 million Americans are using the Internet “to gain knowledge about disease, investigate how to participate in clinic…
Cheerios® Teaching Consumers Facts About Laboratory Testing
FOR YEARS, BOTH HOSPITAL LABS and independent commercial labs considered physicians and payers to be the primary customers for lab testing. The lab testing needs of patients as customers seldom came up when lab managers discussed how to organize and deliver their lab’s testing services. In fact, m…
Piper Jaffray Illustrates “New” Paradigm for Role of Lab Tests
WHEN FINANCIAL ANALYST William B. Bonello issued his overview report on the diagnostic services industry last week, little did he know that one element of his report would prove an instant hit with lab industry executives. During the U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray conference la…
MCOs Asking For More Lab Test Information
CEO SUMMARY: During the past 12 months, managed care companies in Michigan have increased the quantity and quality of the laboratory test information they want from their laboratory providers. Once again, the marketplace is raising the bar for competitive laboratory services. In response,…
“July 31, 2000 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Medical Management Programs, Inc. (MMP) of Southfield, Michigan is the new owner of the TPA (third party administrator) business formerly held by Universal Standard Medical Laboratories. MMP purchased the TPA business involving lab testing and home health services from USML’s Chapt…
Web-Based Lab Transactions Part of McKesson HBOC’s Plan
CLINICAL LABORATORY DATA will play a big role at iMcKesson, the new Internet healthcare business unit of McKesson HBOC, Inc., based in San Francisco. McKesson HBOC is putting existing business assets representing annual sales of $300 million into this new division. They include …
Luminex Raises $83 Mil In Public Stock Offering
CEO SUMMARY: During the past year, Luminex Corporation moved swiftly to push its LabMAP™ multiplex testing technology into the bioassay marketplace. It found high interest among companies in the pharmaceutical, diagnostics, and bioresearch industries. Luminex executives say that a numbe…
Bankruptcy at Universal Standard Brings End to Detroit Laboratory
ANOTHER OF THE EARLY 1990’S wunderkind laboratory companies is now defunct. On August 13, Universal Standard Healthcare, Inc. (UHCI) filed a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy action in federal court and ceased business operations. Headquartered in Southfield, Michigan, Universal Standard was o…
Legislators May Repeal NY Lab Surcharge Tax
CEO SUMMARY: After two years of concerted effort, laboratories in New York are optimistic that state legislators will finally repeal an 8.18% surcharge tax on clinical laboratory tests. The significant insight behind this story is how laboratories educated patients about the surcharge. Th…
AutoCyte Moves One Step Closer To FDA Approval
CEO SUMMARY: Until now, AutoCyte has kept a relatively quiet presence in the automated cytology marketplace. That may soon change as the FDA takes action on the company’s PREP™ and SCREEN™ products. AutoCyte expects these products will boost productivity and quality in cytology labs…
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Volume XXXII, No. 6 – April 21, 2025
Now that a federal judge has vacated the FDA’s LDT rule, The Dark Report analyzes the judgement and notes the various steps the FDA could take in response. Also, lab testing at pharmacies is proving to be less successful than was once anticipated.
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