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Our Top Ten Lab Stories Highlight Major Changes
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 17 – December 6, 2010 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: What makes 2010 a watershed year for the laboratory testing industry is enactment of the 2,700-page Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Even if parts of this bill are repealed, the remaining parts of the massive legislation will trigger major changes …
Q3 Earnings Are Mixed Bag For the Two Blood Brothers
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 15 – October 25, 2010 Issue
IF THERE IS A NOTABLE EVENT in the laboratory testing marketplace during 2010, it is that one of the nation’s billion-dollar lab testing behemoths has reported three consecutive quarters of declines in the number of test requisitions it handled, when compared to the same quarters during 2009. In t…
Hospital-Owned Medical Groups Serving More Patients Per Doc
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 14 – October 4, 2010 Issue
IT’S WIDELY KNOWN BY PATHOLOGISTS and laboratory administrators that hospitals and health systems are buying up private medical practices at an accelerating rate. This is a trend that favors hospital laboratory outreach programs, but may not be auspicious for the national laboratories. For this re…
More Hospitals Consider PAML’s Lab JV Model
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 13 – September 13, 2010 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: One joint venture at a time, PAML is convincing hospital and health system CEOs about the benefits of building a thriving laboratory outreach business. For their part, facing budget cutbacks and a decline in Medicare reimbursement, more hospital administrato…
EMR Donations, Client Bill Issues in Anatomic Path
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 7 – May 10, 2010 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In today’s market for anatomic pathology services, local pathology practices are facing tough competition from national pathology companies that are quite aggressive at using EHR donations and discounted client bill arrangements to win new clients. Attorney Jane Pi…
New Cycle Begins for Lab and Pathology Acquisitions
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XVII No. 3 – February 15, 2010 Issue
THERE’S A NEW TRANSITION JUST GETTING STARTED in the laboratory testing industry. For the past two decades, laboratory acquisition activity has primarly centered around independent clinical laboratories—often owned by local pathologists. This was true in both the size of the transactions and in t…
New Clinical Lab Trends To Shape Events in 2010
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 1 – January 4, 2010 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In presenting this list of macro trends for clinical laboratories, several themes are in play. They range from a continued emphasis on improving lab operations to the need to acquire and deploy sophisticated information technology. During the next few years, the long…
Catholic Health Initiatives Ramps Up Lab Outreach
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVI No. 17 – December 14, 2009 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) wants to expand its presence in outpatient and outreach services. It sees hospital laboratory outreach programs as a key component of this strategy. It will use an equity investment in Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories (PAML) as the f…
2009’s Top Ten Lab Stories Reflect Some Good, Bad
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVI No. 17 – December 14, 2009 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: As the closing year of the first decade of the new century and the new millennium, 2009 brought neither disruption nor upheaval to the majority of laboratories in the United States. Rather, it was marked by at least two themes. One was how public disclosure of problems with l…
Despite the Recession, Many Local Labs Thrive
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVI No. 7 – May 18, 2009 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Each year, the Executive War College offers useful perspectives on the current lab testing marketplace. This year’s gathering took place as the recession deepened. Yet that didn’t dampen the optimism and energy of 60 speakers and more than 450 attendees from 12 c…
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