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Testing at Pharmacies Enters a Murky Future
CEO SUMMARY: Five years ago, it seemed a solid prediction that retail pharmacies would establish a stronghold in primary care and offer wider access to common diagnostic testing services that clinical laboratories provide. Fast forward to 2025, and the market does not look…
Role of Price Transparency During Path Contract Talks
CEO SUMMARY: Pathology groups have a much better opportunity to turn the tables on payers and other third parties during contract negotiations if they come armed with the data and other information recommended by two well-respected pathology experts…
Innovations in Lab Testing Arriving at Light Speed
TODAY, IT’S A CHALLENGE TO STAY UP WITH ALL THE NEW THINGS arriving in the lab testing marketplace. Novel assays are launched weekly. That is equally true for next-generation automation and lab analyzers, with vendors regularly announcing something new to their menu of products. The pace of innova…
The Dark Report Acquired by LabX Media Group
CEO SUMMARY: One of the clinical laboratory industry’s longest-running sources of business intelligence, market trends, and management developments has a new owner. LabX Media Group completed its purchase of The Dark Intelligence Group, Inc. (TDIG) on Feb. 28, 2025. This transaction pav…
Medical Robotics Developer Says It’s Time to Transform Phlebotomy
“Our innovation aims to make blood draws fully autonomous, safer, faster, more accurate, less painful, and more accessible.” —Brian Joseph, co-founder, Vitestro CEO SUMMARY: Phlebotomy and collection of veinous blood is one important procedure in clinical…
Upcoming Executive War College to Cover Important Lab Trends
New developments now changing the landscape in health-care and the clinical laboratory market will be addressed at the upcoming 30th Annual Executive War College on Diagnostic, Clinical Laboratory, and Pathology Management that happens on April 29-30, 20…
Negotiating Path Contracts with Hospitals, Third Parties
PART THREE OF A SERIES TO HELP ANATOMIC PATHOLOGY GROUPS THRIVE AND PROSPER during these challenging times, The Dark Report presents this third installment in a series that identifies clinical, operational, and financial strategies pathology groups…
January 27, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
On Jan. 16, 2025, Paul Mango died at the age of 65. With his passing, the profession of laboratory medicine lost an ally and a friend. In the mid-1990s, while at the Institute for Transfusion Medicine in Pittsburgh, Mango convinced the CEOs of 40 hospitals to collaborate and create t…
Pathology Compensation in Different Settings, including Hospitals
CEO SUMMARY: This second installment on the series about boosting pathologist compensation uses data collected during a survey of 1,400 pathologists in 230 pathology practices by the Panel of National Pathology Leaders (PNPL). Two experienced pathology consultants identify the most effect…
Proven Ways to Improve Pathologist Productivity and Compensation
CEO SUMMARY: There is now extensive data from 1,400 pathologists serving in 230 pathology groups that show certain clinical and business strategies can lift a group’s collected revenue and increase the total annual compensation of the group’s pathologists. This is the first of a serie…
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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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