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Outsourcing Lab Outreach Leads to Better Service
CEO SUMMARY: Many hospital laboratories continue to endure non-stop cutbacks to staffing and funding. The success of the recently instituted laboratory testing outreach program at West Hills Hospital and Medical Center validates that the market continues to reward labs willing to offer ad…
Ten Myths of Lab Management That Led the Clinical Lab Industry Astray
Part One of a Special Series CEO SUMMARY: One of our most popular series ever was the “13 Perilous Parallels” of laboratory management. This four-part story appeared in 1996 and chronicled similar management strategies used by various national laboratories during the…
Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp Face an Evolving Marketplace
TWO OF THE THREE BLOOD BROTHERS reported continued improvement in their financial condition as second quarter earnings reports were made public. This news, however, was overshadowed by speculation about the failure of Quest Diagnostics Incorporated to consummate its purchase of …
Applying Heat to the Pressure Cooker
I AM STRUCK BY THE NON-STOP TIDAL WAVE OF CHANGE which continues to strike at clinical laboratories and pathology practices. Although it may be tough to quantify the volume of change, that task becomes easier if you use each issue of THE DARK REPORT as a measuring post of change. Take this issue, f…
McKesson on HBOC, PAML, Medicare Coding, Abbott Laboratories
SCANDAL AT HBO & CO. TAINTS MCKESSON HBOC FIVE EXECUTIVES WERE SACKED by McKesson HBOC Inc.’s Board of Directors last month in response to allegations of financial improprieties. All five were employed by HBOC prior to its acquisition by McKesson last year. The termin…
Associated Pathologists Laboratories, Dynacare, Bio-Reference Labs, Quest, AmeriPath
ASSOCIATED PATH LABS WINS PATENT FOR DRUGS OF ABUSE TEST IT’S NOT TOO OFTEN that independent commercial laboratories are awarded patents. Las Vegas-based Associated Pathologists Laboratories received a patent for a technique it developed relating to drugs of abuse testing….
Investors Coming Back To Clinical Lab Industry
CEO SUMMARY: Wall Street money is beginning to flow back into the commercial laboratory industry. This time the beneficiary is Unilab Corporation of Tarzana, California. New York-based Kelso & Company signed an agreement to buy 93% of Unilab’s shares. The common perception among fin…
DIANON Systems Nails Contract To Provide AP Services To Aetna
Sand sales efforts paid off for DIANON Systems, Inc. of Stratford, Connecticut. Last month the publicly-traded lab disclosed a new contract with Aetna/U.S. Healthcare. The pact, signed with Aetna and SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories (SBCL), …
Labs Entering New Cycle Of Evolution and Change
CEO SUMMARY: As some of the nation’s most astute and forward-looking lab executives prepare to gather in New Orleans for the fourth annual EXECUTIVE WAR COLLEGE, it is time to share our assessment of the laboratory and pathology industry. Recent events presage another profound …
Who “Runs” the Lab Industry?
HAVE MOST OF YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT WHO “RUNS” THE LAB INDUSTRY? This is a serious question! Who is responsible for teaching lab managers what is necessary to run a productive, profitable, and stable laboratory organization? After all, laboratories in 1999 look very different than they did in 19…
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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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