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Catholic Health Initiatives Signs Pact with PAML
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XVI No. 15 – November 02, 2009 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In concept, it is a simple deal. Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI), the nationâ…
August 3, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXII No. 11 – August 3, 2015 Issue
Cerner Corporation is celebrating a big summer of contract awards from the Department of Defense. First up was a project to support further standardization of anatomic pathology within the laboratories operated worldwide by the DoD. Early in July, it was announced t…
Locked Out of Payer Network, NH Hospital Opens Lab Company
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXII No. 4 – March 9, 2015 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Since Anthem launched its site of service program in New Hampshire in 2010, labs in the state’s hospitals have mostly been excluded from its network and have lost market share. Recently one community hospital developed an unusual strategy to win back those patients…
Leveraging Testing Technology To Identify MRSA, C. Difficile
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XX No. 3 – March 4, 2013 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Probably the most challenging infections for hospitals to control and reduce are methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Clostridium difficile (C. diff). The laboratory at one New York hospital introduced algorithms to screen for the presence of each i…
January 26, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXII No. 2 – January 26, 2015 Issue
Interesting things are happening in the commercial clinical lab testing market internationally. In New Zealand, district health boards continue a decadeslong trend of squeezing commercial lab companies with the goal of reducing laboratory testing costs and eliminating redundancies. Currently the dist…
Could Health Insurers Be at War with Clinical Labs?
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXI No. 8 – June 9, 2014 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: It may sound ridiculous to assert that the nation’s largest health insurers are now “waging war†against clinical labs. However, some very smart people in the profession of laboratory medicine are expressing this opinion. To support such a conclusion, they point to paye…
Speakers in New Orleans Offer Important Insights
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXI No. 7 – May 19, 2014 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In coming years, there will be multiple challenges and opportunities for the nation’s clinical laboratories and pathology groups. That was one common theme heard from the 90 speakers and panelists at the 19th annual Executive War College on Laboratory and Pathology Manageme…
Labs, Path Groups Face Major Financial Issues
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXI No. 3 – February 24, 2014 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Are clinical labs and pathology groups ready for the end of fee-for-service reimbursement? That’s just one important question that will be answered at the upcoming Executive War College on Lab and Pathology Management that will take place in New Orleans on April 29-30. The …
Once Again, Revenue Declines at Quest Diagnostics Incorporated
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXI No. 2 – February 3, 2014 Issue
FIRST TO REPORT its fourth quarter and full year earnings for 2013 was Quest Diagnostics Incorporated. It more than other potential buyers to released its earnings report last Thursday. For fourth quarter 2013, Quest Diagnostics generated revenue of $1.76 billion, c…
Across the Pond, Lots of Changes in Lab Testing
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXI No. 2 – February 3, 2014 Issue
IN BOTH THE UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPE, plenty of change is unfolding in clinical laboratory and anatomic pathology testing. Our intrepid Editor-in-Chief, Robert L. Michel, spent last week in England attending our annual Frontiers in Laboratory Medicine conference, now in its eleventh year. …
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