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Are Two Blood Brothers Using Economic Clout?
CEO SUMMARY: Quest Diagnostics Incorporated and Laboratory Corporation of America now dominate the national marketplace for testing referred by physicians’ offices. Release of their second quarter earnings reports provides the first look at their performance following the acquisitions i…
“July 7, 2003 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Employers should brace for another round of higher health insurance costs. The early sign of more double-digit premium increases comes from California. Directors of CALPERS (California Public Employees Retirement System) voted to raise member HMO premiums by an average of between 16….
Lab Acquisitions in 2002 Changed National Market
NEVER IN THE PAST THREE DECADES has there been so few laboratory companies—public and private—competing to offer lab testing services to office-based physicians. At the end of 2002, THE DARK REPORT’S annual ranking of public laboratory companies showed just 11 firms. Of these, two (Uni…
Genomic Health, LabCorp, DIANON Systems
GENETIC ANALYSIS FROM TISSUE BLOCKS UNVEILED IN CHICAGO IT WAS A SPECTACULAR DEBUT for a Northern California company now developing technology to allow genetic analysis of tissue blocks as a way to classify tumors. The company is Genomic Health, Inc., based in Redwood City,…
Specialty Laboratories, IMPATH, Roche, Abbott Laboratories, Celera Diagnostics
SPECIALTY LABORATORIES RESTORING STABILITY IN SPECIMEN VOLUME IT’S NO SURPRISE THAT COMPETITORS of Specialty Laboratories, Inc. have been willing to spread a variety of rumors about the laboratory company, given its well-publicized troubles with government regulators last …
LabCorp’s MacMahon Provides Insights About Lab Marketplace
CEO SUMMARY: Pathologists will be particularly interested in what Thomas MacMahon has to say about the evolution of laboratory medicine. As Chairman, President, and CEO of Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, he has continuous access to some of the best strategic analysis about the…
Quest Finally Owns Unilab, New Market Cycle To Begin
PERSISTENCE FINALLY PAID OFF for Quest Diagnostics Incorporated. On February 26, it took ownership of Unilab Corporation, capping almost 11 months of effort. In completing this acquisition, Quest Diagnostics completes the two blood brothers’ acquisition sweep of m…
Buyout of AmeriPath Riles Some Shareholders
CEO SUMMARY: Owners of the few remaining independent private laboratory companies closely watch prices paid by lab buyers. In the pending sale of AmeriPath to private equity investor Welsh, Carson, Anderson, & Stowe, dissenting shareholders disclosed several aspects of the valuation p…
The Lab Industry’s Market Share Juggernauts
MOST OF YOU KNOW THAT 2002 WAS AN UNEXPECTEDLY ACTIVE YEAR for public laboratory company acquisitions. The entire rank of mid-market public laboratory companies actively selling routine testing services to physicians’ offices was swept from the board by Quest Diagnostics Incorporated and L…
Quest Ready to Move on Unilab, Announces Its 2002 Earnings
PERSISTENCE IS ABOUT TO PAY OFF for Quest Diagnostics Incorporated. After ten months of effort, it expects to finalize its acquisition of Unilab Corporation within weeks. But the Unilab acquisition soon to close looks different than the acquisition that was original…
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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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