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Three Ex-UroCor Execs Acquitted in Jury Trial
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIII No. 10 – July 24, 2006 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: On June 30, 2006,three former executives of UroCor,Inc.,accused by the U.S. Attorney of anti-kickback and securities violations, stood and heard the jury verdict in their case. “Not guilty on all counts,” stated the jury foreman. Thus ended the effort to convict former ex…
Turning Up the Heat in California
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XIII No. 8 – June 12, 2006 Issue
FOR THE PAST TWO DECADES, CALIFORNIA HAS BEEN A PACE SETTER in healthcare and the clinical laboratory industry. Events in recent weeks seem to indicate that California will continue to move ahead of other regions in developments that influence the clinical laboratory industry. First, there is the im…
California Attorney General Subpoenas Quest & LabCorp
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIII No. 8 – June 12, 2006 Issue
LITTLE IS KNOWN about the reasons why the Attorney General (AG) of California recently served subpoenas to Quest Diagnostics Incorporated and Laboratory Corporation of America. News of the subpoenas surfaced when both laboratory companies dis- closed the news in reg…
MDS Intends to Divest All Lab Testing Assets
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIII No. 3 – February 27, 2006 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: As part of a major corporate restructuring, MDS Inc. is selling three business units, including MDS Diagnostic Services. Within the Canadian healthcare system, this is a major event. MDS operates some of the nation’s largest laboratory facilities in its most populous provin…
January 16, 2006 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIII No. 1 – January 16, 2006 Issue
In recent months, the buzz around the lab industry in Southern California has been that Healthline Clinical Laboratories, Inc. is up for sale. THE DARK REPORT believes news of a sales agreement is imminent. The new buyer is likely to be a pair of looking-for-work lab executives in th…
Picking Top Ten Stories Of 2005 for Lab Industry
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XII No. 17 – December 5, 2005 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: THE DARK REPORT offers its pic…
Payers Begin Speeding Up Payment to Physicians
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XII No. 16 – November 14, 2005 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Labs and pathology groups have always found it tough to bill patients and collect a high proportion of those obligations. That situation is about to change, and fast! Payers recognize that, as more consumers are required to pay higher deductibles, co-pays, and out-of-pocket e…
Medi-Cal Abandons Lab Contract Scheme
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XII No. 15 – October 24, 2005 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Another threat to limit all laboratories’ access to Medicaid patients has ended. Just as the Medicaid lab contracting initiative proposed last year in Florida collapsed from its innate complexity, so also has a similar contracting initiative collapsed in California. In both…
Our Tenth Anniversary Serving Your Needs
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XII No. 14 – October 3, 2005 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: It was on September 25, 1995 that the first issue of THE DARK REPORT was published. The laboratory industry was in financial turmoil. There was widespread consolidation in both the commercial lab sector and among hospital laboratories. Reimbursement for lab testing services w…
WSJ Slams Client Bill For Lab Test Services
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XII No. 14 – October 3, 2005 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In a front-page story last Friday, the Wall Street Journal published an investigative story on the topic of client billing for laboratory testing and anatomic pathology services. It’s a “must-read” story for all pathologists and lab managers. For years, the lab industry…
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