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Economic, Tech Changes Drive Lab Concerns
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 7 – May 12, 2025 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Uncertainty around tariffs, future regulations, and artificial intelligence (AI) defined the mood at the 2025 Executive War College, where nearly 1,000 lab leaders gathered. Speakers warned of how stagnant healthcare spending could trickle down to labs. Meanwh…
LDT Oversight May Fall to Congress, CLIA
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 7 – May 12, 2025 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: After a federal court struck down the FDA’s final rule on laboratory developed tests, attention has shifted to Congress and CLIA as likely paths forward for oversight. A lack of bipartisan momentum makes new legislation unlikely in the near term. Experts sug…
Quest, Labcorp CEOs Discuss Tariff Strategies with Investors
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 7 – May 12, 2025 Issue
Leaders at Labcorp and Quest Diagnostics indicated that they are prepared to weather at least the early months of the unfolding tariff war that is upending the global economy. “There will be some impact from …
February 17, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 3 – February 17, 2025 Issue
To implement a corporate restructuring, Becton Dickinson (BD) announced on Feb. 5, 2025, that it would proceed to “separate BD’s Biosciences and Diagnostic Solutions business from the rest of BD.” The company plans to complete this action by the end of 2025. Clinical laboratori…
Insights from Q3 2024 Earnings Calls Point to a More Robust Lab Market
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI No. 15 – November 4, 2024 Issue
FOR THE THIRD QUARTER OF 2024 (Q3 2024), both of the nation’s largest publicly traded laboratories—Labcorp…
Labs: Be Ready for Data to Dominate Diagnostics
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXX, Number 17 – December 4, 2023 Issue
By now, it should be clear to clin…
Competency Assessments Prove To Be a Nagging CLIA Deficiency
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX, No. 11 – July 31, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Competency assessment problems rank high among frequently cited deficiencies during CLIA inspections. Representatives from the CAP, COLA, and The Joint Commission explain what areas to…
AACC Changes Name to ADLM, Seeking to Broaden Appeal
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX, No. 7 – May 8, 2023 Issue
HOPING TO BROADEN ITS INFLUENCE IN THE LABORATORY INDUSTRY, the American Association of Clinical Chemistry (AACC) …
Six Important Themes to Help Labs Succeed
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX, No. 5 – March 27, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Clinical laboratories face business challenges with day-to-day operations, genetic testing, and evolving care delivery models. The 2023 Executive War College on Diagnostics, Clinical Laboratory, and Pathology Management returns on April 25-26 in New Orleans. Participant…
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Volume XXXII, No. 7 – May 12, 2025
Economic, Tech changes drive lab concerns, The Dark Report provides insights from the Executive War College speakers about how clinical labs can use business strategies and tactics to handle the new tariffs, future regulations, and artificial intelligence (AI). Also, this issue provides guidance on how labs and pathologists should prepare for payer audits.
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