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Hospitals Saw Several Benefits In Forming Laboratory Joint Venture
CEO SUMMARY: For the past eight years, growing numbers of hospitals and health systems have launched laboratory outreach programs. Hospital CEOs are recognizing that laboratory outreach programs generate worthwhile operational gains, along with steadily-increasing revenues. However, labor…
Lab/Path M&A Day Explores High Prices Paid to Lab Owners
IF YOU HAVEN’T NOTICED, there’s a gold rush in diagnostics! Prices paid for clinical laboratories, anatomic pathology group practices, and in vitro diagnostic (IVD) companies have soared recently. This is good news for pathologists and laboratory owners interested in putting their laboratory on …
Are Feds Ready to Strike at TC/PC Arrangements?
CEO SUMMARY: Pathologists and laboratory directors will want to pay attention to the proposed rules published by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on July 2, 2007. The document is a grab bag of proposals and rules that would significantly curb many common ancillary services a…
Lakewood Pathology Changes Leadership
CEO SUMMARY: Following the arrival of a new majority owner and a capital commitment of $50 million last year, Lakewood Pathology Associates has taken additional steps to pursue growth. Lakewood plans to acquire small to mid-sized companies that are complementary to its position in the ana…
Quest Acknowledges Loss of United Business
CEO SUMMARY: In the boxing world, prize fights between heavyweight contenders always grab the world’s attention. The same is true in the lab industry, where the current fight between the industry’s two heavyweights has the potential to reshape several important aspects of the national…
Sonic Pays $180 Million In Acquisition of AEL
CEO SUMMARY: In a transaction that was quietly negotiated, Sonic Healthcare Ltd. will purchase American Esoteric Laboratories, Inc. (AEL). News of the sale was released Friday and the sale may close in early January. Once it owns AEL, Sonic will have a major presence in Memphis, Tennessee…
New & Stefanelli Launch Anatomic Path Venture
CEO SUMMARY: With little fanfare, Aurora Diagnostics, Inc. opened for business last summer. It states that it has already signed acquisition agreements with five different pathology groups. Former AmeriPath executives James C. New and Martin J. Stefanelli are leading Aurora Diagnostics. H…
Pathologist Builds General Path Business From Office Lab
CEO SUMMARY: Doctors Pathology Services in Delaware is successful for two reasons. First it runs the largest pathology lab in the state. But more important, it runs one of the few successful mobile pathology services anywhere. The Mobile Intraoperative Consultation Service(MICS)allows the…
United Health: Quest Is “Out”–LabCorp Is “In”
CEOSUMMARY: Effective on January 1, 2007, UnitedHealth Group will have one national contract laboratory. On that date, Laboratory Corporation of America becomes the preferred provider and Quest Diagnostics Incorporated becomes an out-of-network laboratory. With access to 34 million United…
LabCorp Exec Discusses Reasons Behind Its 10-Year Pact with United
“This 10-year agreement is unique in the laboratory industry. It speaks to the long-term commitment of both parties.”—Brad Smith, Executive Vice President, Laboratory Corporation of America CEO SUMMARY: It was unprecedented when UnitedHealth …
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