By Joseph Burns, from the Volume XXIII No. 12 – September 6, 2016 issue
CEO SUMMARY: There is always a story behind the story, and THE DARK REPORT went to the lead researcher of the reference pricing study published in JAMA Internal Medicine to get it. In this interview, James C. Robinson, PhD, of the University of California, Berkeley, discusses how the findings of his team’s study may encourage
By Joseph Burns, from the Volume XXIII No. 12 – September 6, 2016 issue
CEO SUMMARY: Researchers studied the effect reference pricing had on an employer’s efforts to steer consumers to low-cost clinical labs. The study showed that patients were particularly sensitive to lab test prices—in part because those prices varied widely. Over the course of the study, a grocery chain saved $2.7 million when the percentage of patients using higher-priced labs
By Mary Van Doren, from the Volume XXIII No. 12 – September 6, 2016 issue
This is an excerpt from a 1,600-word article in the September 6 issue of THE DARK REPORT. The complete article is available to paid members of the Dark Intelligence Group.
CEO SUMMARY: It’s the newest threat to clinical lab survival. A new study shows exactly how reference pricing in healthcare is likely to work, as widely
By Robert Michel, from the Volume IX No. 16 - November 18, 2002 issue
CEO SUMMARY: Two pioneering advertising campaigns launched in September. Both Myriad Genetics and IMPATH targeted consumers with advertisements about diagnostic testing. In each case, the most vocal response to the advertising came from within the medical community. Within the pathology profession, IMPATH’s full-page advertisement in the New York Times Sunday Magazine was not well-received by
By Robert Michel, from the Volume VII No. 14 - October 2, 2000 issue
CEO SUMMARY: Stock prices for public lab companies zoomed upwards through 2000. For this reason, executives at Specialty Laboratories, Inc. believe it is an auspicious time for their laboratory to bring an initial public offering (IPO) to market. Company officials recently filed a stock registration document with the SEC which provides new insights about the
