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Insurers Dropping Medicare HMO Programs in Various Regions
Several of the nation’s largest health insurance companies will cease offering Medicare HMOs in certain regions of the United States. Almost 800,000 of the nature’s seniors will be dropped from Medicare +Choice plans as Aetna/US Healthcare, Foundation Health Systems, Oxford Health System…
Investors Returning To Lab Industry
SOMETHING BIG IS HAPPENING to the clinical laboratory industry and the anatomic pathology profession. For the first time in six or seven years, the investment community is paying close attention to the laboratory industry. This should be a welcome development for commercial lab owners and anatomic …
Merger Creates “New” Pathology Competitor
CEO SUMMARY: Pathology business consolidation and regionalization continues. Pathology Consultants of America, Inc. (PCA) and PathSOURCE, Inc. announced their intention to merge last month. The combined company will be called Inform DX, Inc. and will compete nationally for anatomic pathol…
LAB-InterLink Acquires Labotix Automation, Inc.
CEO SUMMARY: Here’s an interesting combination of expertise. LAB-InterLink has one of most sophisticated process control software products for running automated laboratory systems. Its acquisition of Labotix, resulting in the largest installed base of lab automation hardware in the Unit…
Laboratory Regionalization Enters a New Phase
REGIONALIZATION OF LABORATORY SERVICES has been the primary theme behind all major changes to the clinical lab industry since the mid-1980s. There have been several phases, such as commercial lab consolidation, and hospital lab consolidation. But a constant factor underlying each of these phases has …
Bio-Reference Labs, CARESIDE, United Healthcare, MetLife, Foundation Health
BIO-REFERENCE LABS MOVES TO START PATIENT-DOCTOR MESSAGING ONE OF THE NATION’S MORE AGGRESSIVE efforts to refocus the clinical laboratory organization can be found at Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc., located in Elmwood Park, New Jersey. Bio-Reference wants to use its bas…
Academic Hospital Lab Raises Competitive Bar
CEO SUMMARY: Few academic center laboratories are as swift-moving as the UMASS Health System Laboratory. In the next 90 days, it will move into a brand new off-site core laboratory. During this same 90 days, it is implementing its first web-based laboratory test ordering and results repor…
Pathology Profession Facing New Directions
CEO SUMMARY: Big changes ahead during the next decade. Among the predictions: the number of two and three-pathologist group practices will radically diminish; pathology centers of excellence will achieve new market dominance; and…ever more intense competition for anatomic pathology spec…
Lab Network in Florida Becoming Tough Player
CEO SUMMARY: Throughout the 1990s, a growing number of hospital laboratory administrators learned the value of a professionally-managed lab outreach program. In a few markets, these savvy lab leaders moved to the next level: using regional laboratory networks to solidify their local marke…
Specialty Labs Moving To Web-Based Services
CEO SUMMARY: Competition for hospital reference and esoteric testing remains intense. Three years ago, Specialty Laboratories made an early bet on Internet technology. It believed that being first to offer faster and less complicated access to laboratory informatics resources would give i…
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