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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…
Testing at Pharmacies Enters a Murky Future
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 6 – April 21, 2025 Issue
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
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 5 – March 31, 2025 Issue
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
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXXII, No. 4 – March 10, 2025 Issue
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
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 4 – March 10, 2025 Issue
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
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 4 – March 10, 2025 Issue
“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
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 4 – March 10, 2025 Issue
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
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 2 – January 27, 2025 Issue
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
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 2 – January 27, 2025 Issue
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…
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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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