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Why There’s “Bad Blood” Against National Labs
I AM FREQUENTLY ASKED BY WALL STREET TYPES why there seems to be latent, even deep-seated animosity between a large number of local laboratories and both of the two blood brothers. They wonder why, for example, hospital laboratories aren’t more interested in doing collaborative ventures with either…
New Trends in 2003 Affect Clinical Lab Services
CEO SUMMARY: Here’s our current list of macro trends that affect clinical laboratories, updated from the last list in January 2000. One bold prediction is that Medicare, as we know it, is on the verge of a major meltdown. Employers and consumers are also new forces to be reckoned with b…
New Market Channel For Esoteric Testing
CEO SUMMARY: It’s a new marketing model for specialty esoteric tests that presents both clinical and financial challenges to hospital and health system laboratories. Niche labs offering esoteric tests are sending sales reps directly to physicians and bypassing pathologists and lab direc…
“January 20, 2003 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
December proved to be an eventful month for many companies in the lab industry. Here’s some key items of interest, many to be followed in more detail in coming issues of THE DARK REPORT: •AmeriPath, Inc. is to be sold to Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, a privat…
Grasping the Impact of the Genetic Revolution
IT’S BEEN SEVEN MONTHS since healthcare futurist Rick J. Carlson shared his insights about the impending genomic/proteomic revolution at the Executive War College in NewnOrleans last May. A key theme of his message was that diagnostic services would be squarely in the middle of the coming genetics…
Laboratories Sit Squarely Between New Genetics and Today’s Medicine
“Clinical laboratories and pathology groups are at the leading edge of the genetic revolution.” —Rick J. Carlson. CEO SUMMARY: Healthcare futurist Rick J. Carlson believes that knowledge of the human genome will trigger revolutionary…
Patient Safety is Related to “Quality Management”
REMEMBER BACK IN 1997 WHEN LABORATORY COMPLIANCE PROGRAMS were mandated by Medicare officials? That was a big thing in the laboratory industry. Every laboratory organization in the United States scrambled to assess their laboratory’s operating practices, develop policies, and create a compliance ma…
Several Major Surprises Mark Events of 2002
CEO SUMMARY: It was a year when the two blood brothers got much bigger and expanded market share by buying their largest competitors. With patient safety as the goal, employers began active steps to force hospitals, physicians, and other healthcare providers to use quality management syst…
Docs’ In-Office Testing Showing Mixed Trends
CEO SUMMARY: Despite the burdens of CLIA certification and reduced reimbursement for lab tests, many medical practice experts are advising doctors to expand in-office testing. However, diagnostic technologies for near-patient testing are still not robust enough to support this trend. Earl…
Quiet Changes To Ripple Drugs-of-Abuse Market
CEO SUMMARY: Drugs-of-abuse (DOA) testing is an intensely-competitive market poised for significant change. Historically, national lab companies have been the major players and used rock-bottom prices to control the nation’s biggest corporate DOA clients. But since this line of testing …
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Volume XXXII, No. 13 – September 15, 2025
The Dark Report examines a new bill that would reform PAMA and avoid reimbursement rate cuts scheduled for January 2026. Clinical laboratory leaders are urged to make their voices heard in Congress. Also, an expert describes how labs can fix pre-analytical errors and avoid disaster.
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