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AP Groups Can Protect Revenue, Pathologist Compensation

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXVI No. 5 – April 8, 2019 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Many anatomic pathology groups are watching their revenue decline and margins shrink on the same or greater case volume. These trends make it imperative to have a deeper understanding of the operational and financial variables that contribute to stability in the group’s fi…

USC’s Clive Taylor, MD, Talks Digital Path, WSI

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIV No. 10 – July 17, 2017 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: The FDA’s clearance of the first digital pathology system for use in primary diagnosis will be a disruptive force for pathologists in the coming years. At the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, pathologist Clive Taylor, MD, predicts that the benefits of …

Does Private Practice Pathology Have a Future?

By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXIII No. 3 – February 29, 2016 Issue

IN RECENT DECADES, A PROPORTION OF PATHOLOGISTS has been proud of the fact that the pathology profession—to a large extent—had managed to protect the vast majority of private pathology group practices from any number of powerful trends and market forces. In the 1990s, HMO contracting practices t…

Longer Pay Cycle for Labs, Plus Lower Collection Rate

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXI No. 12 – September 2, 2014 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Across the United States, clinical labs, histology labs, and pathology groups are experiencing both a much longer payment cycle for claims and a decreased gross collection rate. Blame can be placed on several trends. One trend is the steady increase in the number of patients …

Maine’s Spectrum Medical Group Offers Multiple Specialties

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXI No. 4 – March 17, 2014 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Pathologists looking for a viable future in a healthcare system marked by integration of clinical care and value-based reimbursement will be interested to learn about Spectrum Medical Group based in Portland, Maine. This 180-member multispecialist group includes 22 pathologis…

2013’s Top Ten Lab Stories Point to Tougher Times

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XX, No. 17 – December 23, 2013 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: For 2013, the big story was money—or, more accurately, less money for providers. This was not limited to clinical labs and pathology groups, but was equally true of hospitals and physicians. In THE DARK REPORT’S annual lookback at the year’s 10…

Louisiana Pathologists ‘Moonlight’ as Consultants

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XIX No. 15 – October 29, 2012 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Few independent pathology groups have developed robust laboratory consulting businesses. But adopting that strategy has brought important benefits to Delta Pathology Group, LLC, of Shreveport, Louisiana. Not only has providing lab consulting services to cash-strapped hospital…

Shaw & Adelman Successful Support of Lab Networks Need Hospital Leadership

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XIX No. 3 – February 20, 2012 Issue

CEO Summary: In the second installment of our exclusive two- part interview, the executive directors of two regional laboratory networks formed in the 1990s (one in Michigan and one in Washington State) share their assessment of why their respective lab networks have performed strongly ov…

Why Wall Street Likes Histology Lab Business

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVI No. 6 – April 27, 2009 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Over the past two decades, investor-owned anatomic pathology companies captured significant market share from community hospital-based pathology groups while delivering profits to their owners. Despite the recent downturn in the economy, Wall Street believes histolog…

Powerful Trends Reshaping Anatomic Path Profession

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 2 – February 11, 2008 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: THE DARK REPORT presents its newest biannual review of macro trends reshaping the anatomic pathology profession. These macro trends reveal a profession undergoing change and transformation on multiple fronts. New competitors are crowding into the market, payers and accreditin…

Volume XXXI, No. 16 – November 25, 2024

Two different federal lawsuits that challenge the authority of the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate laboratory developed tests (LDTs) will be combined. Plaintiffs and the government in both cases agreed to move forward on this basis.

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