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Lab Market Fragmenting, Creating New Opportunities
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 5 – April 8, 2024 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Even as consolidation continues in the ownership of hospitals, health systems, office-based physicians, and clinical laboratories, there is a powerful trend of fragmentation quietly transforming the way providers—including clinical labs and pathology groups—serve patient…
Hospitals, Pharmacies Struggle to Be Profitable
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, Number 15 – October 23, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Pharmaceutical companies may be posting strong growth in revenue and profits. But that’s not true for the nation’s largest retail pharmacy chains. Rite Aid’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing earlier this month put a spotlight on financial stress at all the retail pharmacy c…
Major Events on Horizon to Reshape Lab Market
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, No. 7 – May 8, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Speakers at last month’s Executive War College discussed a range of significant trends and changes happening today in the U.S. healthcare system. Two of the most important trends are …
2022’s Top 10 Lab Stories Confirm Challenging Times
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXIX, No. 17 – December 12, 2022 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: There are valuable insights to be gleaned from The Dark Report’s “Top 10 Lab Industry Stories for 2022.” Several of this year’s story picks involve external forces reshaping healthcare in the United States in profound ways. Other story picks for 2022 illustrate …
U.S. Hospitals Will Lose Billions of Dollars in 2022
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 15 – October 31, 2022 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Hospitals and health systems in most regions of the United States are reporting substantial losses, both in patient care and in the value of their investment portfolios. This is inauspicious for the clinical laboratories operated by these hospitals. Hospital-bas…
Labs Face Powerful and Unwelcome Forces
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXIX, No. 11 – August 8, 2022 Issue
OVER THE PAST 25 YEARS, THERE HAS BEEN WIDESPREAD RECOGNITION THAT HEALTHCARE IN THE UNITED STATES is on an unsustainable path. The obvious argument was that year-over-year increases in healthcare costs would eventually overcome the ability of employers (private health plans) and the government (Medi…
June 27, 2022 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, Number 9 – June 27, 2022 Issue
Efforts to revise the much-criticized methods Medicare officials use to establish prices the government pays clinical laboratories under the Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA) of 2014 got a boost last week. On June 22, a bipartisan bill to accomplish that was introduced in the U.S. Senate. The …
Intermountain Health Merges with SCL Health
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 7 – May 16, 2022 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Mergers and acquisitions involving large integrated delivery networks (IDNs) are not only reshaping the nation’s hospital industry. These transactions also transform the way hospitals organize their clinical laboratories. Last month’s merger of Intermountain Health …
CAP Introduces Features to Aid CLIA Inspections
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 14 – October 18, 2021 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Clinical labs are changing in multiple ways and the College of American Pathologists regularly revises its CLIA accreditation processes in response to these changes. One such change is the growth in the number of integrated delivery networks that operate multiple hospit…
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Volume XXXI, No. 5 – April 8, 2024
The fragmentation of consumer markets is reflected in clinical lab services, and The Dark Report examines this trend and how it will impact labs in the coming years. Also, The Dark Report notes that the FDA has issued a controversial memo to reclassify many high-risk IVD assays.
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