FDA Steps Up Test Enforcement, Saying Tests Need Clearance

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII No. 4 – March 21, 2016 Issue

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Despite Tough Anatomic Pathology Market, Bostwick Opens New Laboratory

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII, No. 1 – January 19, 2016 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Once again, entrepreneur and pathologist David G. Bostwick, MD, is starting up a new lab company. Granger Diagnostics is now open and is located in North Chesterfield, Virginia. It is designed to be an anatomic, clinical, and molecular pathology reference laboratory. In an ex…

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PerkinElmer Launches Lab Venture in China

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXII No. 4 – March 9, 2015 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: PerkinElmer is the latest U.S. organization to open a clinical laboratory business in China. Last December, it formally opened its new Suzhou PerkinElmer Medical Laboratory. The new lab is located about 60 kilometers (37 miles) west of Shanghai. It will provide neona…

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Pathologists Exploring Use of Diagnostic Teams

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXII No. 2 – January 26, 2015 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: In the search for ways to add more value to lab testing services, pathologists and lab administrators are considering organizing diagnostic management teams within their hospitals. Such teams focus on complex cases and include…

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UCLA, Centre to Open Lab in China to Offer High Quality Testing

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXI No. 7 – May 19, 2014 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: To fill the unmet demand for quality clinical laboratory testing in China, a partnership between pathologists at UCLA and Centre Testing International Corp. of Shenzen have built and will operate a lab facility in Shanghai. The new lab will open by late September and…

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Tricare, DOD Not Paying for MoPath Codes, LDTs

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXI No. 1 – January 13, 2014 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: It turns out that labs serving Tricare patients are going unpaid for certain LDTs, molecular, and genetic tests. The issue of nonpayment began in January 2013 when Tricare stopped paying for these tests that were billed under the new molecular CPT codes that replaced the prev…

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Pathology, Inc. Sells Equity to Raise Capital

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 2 – January 25, 2010 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: In looking how to propel its business to the next level, the partners at Pathology, Inc., opted not to sell their pathology group practice. Instead, they chose to raise capital by selling equity in their company to a group of investors. In this exclusive interview, executives…

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Staunch Laboratory Advocate Retires After 31 Years of Service

By Robert Michel

LAST MONTH, THE LABORATORY INDUSTRY lost one its most dedicated, full-time advocates. With his retirement in January, Joe Boone, Ph.D., ended a 31-year career with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Boone started with the CDC in 1977. In 1992, he …

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$18 Million Judgment for Errors by Laboratory

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 9 – June 25, 2007 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: In a wrongful birth lawsuit, a high-risk pregnancy physician in New Jersey requested a cytogenetics test on a pregnant mother, but LabCorp’s cytogenetics lab never did the test. After the baby was born with myotubular myopathy—the same deformity the mother had sought to p…

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Emerging Global Trends in How Labs Are Using “Distributed Computing”

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 7 – May 14, 2007 Issue

“In several different countries, laboratories already use ‘distributed computing’, in the form of a single LIS data center that provides informatics services to as many as 25 laboratories in a region. The trend is to increase interoperability and portability of the i…

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