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Tennessee Lab Network In Start-Up Preparations
By Robert Michel | From the Volume V No. 4 – March 23, 1998 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Planning for the Middle Tennessee Healthcare Network’s proposed regional laboratory network took longer than expected, but not without good cause. Organizers of this laboratory network did their homework and created a solid business plan. Approval by CEOs from the participa…
Consider Tenet-SBCL Deal As Timely Wake-Up Call
By Robert Michel | From the Volume V No. 1 – January 19, 1998 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Expect the Tenet-SBCL contract announcement to trigger similar deals during the next 18 months. Competition and the need to gain economic advantage will drive some hospital CEOs to turn their laboratories over to commercial laboratory partners. The number of such joint ventur…
Market Forces Cause Detroit’s Lab Network To Launch Operations
By Robert Michel | From the Volume V No. 1 – January 19, 1998 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Joint Venture Hospital Laboratories’ success rests on an essential fact: it exists to respond to marketplace demands. The network links laboratory operations of 24 hospitals owned by eight integrated delivery systems in Greater Detroit. Not only is it the oldest continuousl…
To Protect Pathology Profits: Understand Managed Care
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IV No. 18 – December 29, 1997 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: On November 8, 1997, THE DARK REPORT convened a private symposium restricted only to pathologists. The sole purpose of this event was to identify how pathologists could preserve and enhance their income. Within the confidential setting of a plush resort in Scottsdale, Arizona…
Market Upheavals Around The Corner
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume IV No. 15 – October 27, 1997 Issue
In reviewing the galley proofs for this issue of THE DARK REPORT, I am struck by the potential for significant market upheaval in two areas of laboratory medicine: pathology and the clinical laboratory marketplace of California. The stories about AmeriPath, Inc. and California labora…
AmeriPath Successfully Completes Public Offering
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IV No. 15 – October 27, 1997 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: AmeriPath’s new status as a public company gives it even greater visibility than before. As the first public pathology-based physician practice management firm, AmeriPath has the potential to introduce many innovations into the business organization of pathology services. W…
Consolidation At Presbyterian Encourages Regional Strategy
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IV No. 15 – October 27, 1997 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Presbyterian Laboratory Services represents one of the more advanced business models of laboratory consolidation found today in the United States. Owned by an integrated delivery system, the laboratory division serves six hospitals and a variety of outreach clients. Several e…
Nominations Now Open For Laboratory Innovators
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IV No. 14 – October 6, 1997 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Nominations are now open as THE DARK REPORT seeks to identify laboratory executives who deserve recognition. Our annual awards program honors the innovators and leaders within the clinical laboratory industry who push the boundaries of management change and show us how to bes…
Warning Ahead: Investigation And Litigation
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume IV No. 12 – August 25, 1997 Issue
NEWS THAT PRIVATE INSURERS FILED A MAJOR LAWSUIT against SmithKline Beecham last Thursday confirms something I’ve wondered about for several years. What would be the private insurer’s perspective on the same laboratory billing and reimbursement practices which triggered federal settlements with …
“August 25, 1997 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IV No. 12 – August 25, 1997 Issue
Meris Laboratories continues to be a turnaround challenge. The company announced on August 4 that CEO and President Denis Simon had resigned. Appointed by the board on March 25, Simon stayed less than 18 weeks in the position. Like several other California labs, the San Jose-based co…
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