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Do Community Labs Have a Future in the U.S.?
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXVI No. 1 – January 14, 2019 Issue
It may be timely to ask a provocative question that touches everyone in the profession of laboratory medicine. Is there a future for community laboratories and hospital lab outreach programs in the United States, given the different forces acting upon the clinical laboratory industry today? In this …
Why PAMA May Be Poised to Disrupt Lab Industry
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVI No. 1 – January 14, 2019 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: This will be one of the most challenging years facing the clinical lab industry since the early 1990s, when closed panel HMOs were the disruptive force that generated deep cuts in lab test prices. However, unlike HMOs of that era, the CMS scheme to collect private payer lab t…
Is There a Future for Hospital Lab Outreach Programs?
By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXVI No. 1 – January 14, 2019 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: This will be one of the most challenging years facing the clinical lab industry since the early 1990s. The CMS scheme to collect private payer lab test prices and use that data to set Medicare clinical laboratory test pric…
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Volume XXX No. 4 – March 6, 2023
Readers will uncover a theme of mergers and consolidations running throughout this issue of The Dark Report. Case in point is our story about the pending merger between Sanford Health and Fairview Health Services. If the deal goes through, the new system will have 58 hospitals across five states. The Dark Report also notes revenues from Labcorp’s acquisition of Ascension Health, and reports on the creation of a major MT training center in Utah.
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