Employer Healthcare Costs Will Rise in 2026

By Janette Wider | From the Volume XXXII, No. 14 – October 6, 2025 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Private employers face the highest increase in health benefit costs per employee since 2010. Advances in therapeutics, including popular obesity drugs, and increased utilization are among the culprits. Savvy clinical laboratories will recognize the opportunity…

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After Regaining Outreach, Lab Grows it by $10M

By Janette Wider | From the Volume XXXII, No. 14 – October 6, 2025 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: In this case study, Kootenai Health in Idaho explains how taking back lab outreach services from a commercial lab company can improve physician satisfaction, enhance patient care, and increase revenue. Although the transition was bumpy, within two years of bri…

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Healthcare Fraud Cases Include Decades-Long Cases of Deceit

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, Number 16 – November 13, 2023 Issue

Healthcare fraud cases continue to receive harsh penalties from the federal government as indicated in the case of a California clinical laboratory owner and her husband who attempted to defraud the government of millions of dollars. Lourdes Navarro and husband Imran Shams attempted to defraud ins…

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Pandemic Helped Lab with Hospital Leaders

By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX No. 3 – February 13, 2023 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Growth at Atrium Health during the COVID-19 pandemic elevated its clinical laboratory’s profile with medical leaders and health system administrators. What followed was a new spirit of collaboration that led to lab involvement in cost savings efforts, such as improved…

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You Asked for It. We Organized It.

By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXIX, No. 12 – August 29, 2022 Issue

DESPITE THE EASING OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN RECENT MONTHS, a pre-pandemic normal does not yet exist—if it ever will. Currently, most clinical laboratories, particularly those serving hospitals and health systems, are under the most intense pressure seen in decades….

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News and Insights from AACC Meeting in Chicago

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 11 – August 8, 2022 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: There was plenty of positive energy last month when the 72nd Annual Scientific Meeting and Exhibition of the American Association of Clinical Chemistry (AACC) took place in Chicago. Attendees seemed pleased to be gathering and networking in person. However, there was re…

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New Trends Reshaping Healthcare, Lab Testing

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 4 – March 14, 2022 Issue

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February 22, 2022 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 3 – February 22, 2022 Issue

Scopio Labs, a medical imaging company in Tel Aviv, recently landed $50 million in Series C venture capital funding as it moves to more fully enter the clinical laboratory market, TechCrunch reported on Feb. 9. Scopio has developed a scanner that can magnify a whole blood sample by 100 …

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Congress Votes: No PAMA Price Cuts for 2022

By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 17 – December 20, 2021 Issue

IT’S WELCOME NEWS THAT CONGRESS VOTED EARLIER THIS MONTH to defer the PAMA price cuts to the Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule (CLFS) that were scheduled to take place in 2022. This is a positive development for the finances of the nation’s clinical labs, particularly the smaller, independent labs t…

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December 20, 2021 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 17 – December 20, 2021 Issue

In Europe, Switzerland-based Unilabs will be acquired by a Danish company. Unilabs owns laboratories in at least 11 European countries and posted revenue of €2 billion euros (US $2.26 billion) in the financial year ending September. The seller is Apax Partners, a private equity compan…

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