How Northwell’s Lab Team Demonstrated Value Over 10 Years

By Joseph Burns

CEO SUMMARY: Among hospital administrators, the popular wisdom is that their clinical lab is a cost center. This thinking leads them to consider drastic cost-management strategies that include partnering with commercial labs to manage in-hospital lab testing and the outright sale of lab o…

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Dartmouth-Hitchcock Builds Strong Lab Outreach Business

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXV No. 10 – July 9, 2018 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: As health networks and hospitals consider outsourcing their lab outreach programs, the lab team at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (D-H) offers lessons about the value of retaining outreach. D-H is now in the eighth year of a sustained expansion of its laboratory outreach …

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Quest Diagnostics Exits 31-Year-Old CompuNet Lab Venture

By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXIV No. 9 – June 26, 2017 Issue

This is an excerpt from a 1,362-word article in the June 26, 2017 issue of THE DARK REPORT. The complete article is available for a limited time to all readers, and available at all times to paid members of the Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: For …

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Quest Diagnostics Exits 31-Year-Old Lab Venture

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIV No. 9 – June 26, 2017 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: News that Quest Diagnostics had exited the long-running CompuNet Clinical Laboratory joint venture in Dayton, Ohio, caught many observers by surprise. The only clues as to possible problems and the motivation of Premier Health, the 51% owner, to buy out Quest’s ownership sh…

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Lab Acquisitions: LabCorp, Quest, Sonic Do Hospital Lab Deals

By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXIV No. 4 – March 13, 2017 Issue

This is an excerpt from a 1,021-word article in the March 13, 2017, issue of THE DARK REPORT. The complete article is available for a limited time to all readers, and available at all times to paid members of the Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: …

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LabCorp, Quest, Sonic Do Hospital Lab Deals

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIV No. 4 – March 13, 2017 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Is the New Year’s spate of deals involving the sales of hospital lab outreach programs and a new joint venture the first tremors of an impending earthquake of similar transactions? In the first 10 weeks of 2017, Laboratory Corporation of America, Quest Diagnostics, and Soni…

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Alberta Picks Sonic Health for $3 Billion Lab Contract

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXI No. 15 – November 3, 2014 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: For more than a year, Alberta’s C$3 billion RFP to develop an integrated laboratory testing service for Edmonton and surrounding regions has been the focus of intense interest. On October 17, health officials announced that Sonic Healthcare Limited was the preferred propone…

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UCLA Pathologists to Open Joint Venture Lab in Shanghai

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXI NO. 6 – April 28, 2014 Issue

PATHOLOGISTS at the University of California Los Angeles Department of Pathology will participate in a unique commercial laboratory company that will be based in Shanghai, China. On April 8, UCLA announced a partnership agreement with Centre Testing International Corp….

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Quest Gets into Wellness By Acquiring Summit Health

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXI No. 4 – March 17, 2014 Issue

IT IS NO SURPRISE THAT THE NATION’S largest laboratory companies are looking for new revenue opportunities now that fee-for-service payment for lab tests is soon to end. One striking example of this trend was the move last week by Quest Diagnostics Incorporated to acquire …

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Newsmaker Interview: Adam Slone, Tara Kochis

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XX No. 13 – September 30, 2013 Issue

“When it comes to hiring senior leaders, labs today are more diligent in recruiting and interviewing candidates for key executive and management positions. One reason for this change is the shrinking financial margins at most labs.” …

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