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Vanderbilt Lab Uses Predictive Medicine to Improve Care

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXVII No. 2 – January 27, 2020 Issue

> CEO SUMMARY: The integrative diagnostics lab at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center aims to use sophisticated diagnostics to advance the use of precision medicine testing to improve patient care and to do so at an affordable cost. As part of these efforts, the lab staff …

New UnitedHealthCare Preferred Lab Network Launches July 1

By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXVI No. 6 – April 29, 2019 Issue

This is an excerpt from a 1,900-word article in the April 29, 2019 issue of THE DARK REPORT. The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: A new UnitedHealthCare (UHC) preferred lab network will launch July 1 with seven lab companies. In an April…

UHC Sets July 1 Launch for New Preferred Network

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXVI No. 6 – April 29, 2019 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: UnitedHealthcare will launch a new preferred laboratory network with seven lab companies on July 1. In an April 22 announcement, UHC said physicians and consumers may continue to use its existing network of more than 300 labs currently in-network. One goal is to give patients…

Reacting to PAMA Cuts, Lab Works with Payers

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXVI No. 5 – April 8, 2019 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Before Medicare’s lab test price cuts went into effect last year, Health Network Laboratories began discussions with private health insurers and nursing home clients about the possibility of renegotiating their contracts. In these discussions, HNL promoted the value it deli…

ProMedica Lab Succeeds with Metrics, Daily Huddles

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXVI No. 1 – January 14, 2019 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: In Toledo, Ohio, ProMedica Laboratories uses extensive metrics to analyze almost all processes in the lab. Under a process improvement program in place for more than five years, the lab has implemented daily management to help streamline day-to-day operations. Concurrently, a…

UHC Reportedly Cutting Ties with Regional Labs

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXV No. 18 – December 24, 2018 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: By cutting out smaller, regional labs, UnitedHealthcare appears to want to shift an unknown percentage of its lab test volume to Quest Diagnostics Inc., which it recently restored to its national provider network. Clinical lab directors should be concerned about this developm…

Cleveland Clinic Lab dramatically reduces doctors ordering unnecessary tests

By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXV No. 7 – May 7, 2018 Issue

This is an excerpt from a 2,920-word article in the May 7, 2018 issue of THE DARK REPORT. The complete article is available for a limited time to all readers, and available at all times to paid members of the Dark Intelligence Group. …

Cleveland Clinic Lab Has Multi-year Test Utilization Success

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXV No. 7 – May 7, 2018 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Over the 24 months of a first-generation round of laboratory test utilization management projects, the Cleveland Clinic laboratories prevented more than 30,000 duplicate or inappropriate test orders, saving almost $2.7 million. Now implementing a second-generation of labtest …

Labs Begin Applying Lean to Cut Costs, Add Value

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIV No. 15 – October 30, 2017 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: In more than 40 presentations by 55 speakers, two big themes dominated the 11th annual Lab Quality Confab in New Orleans last week. One theme is the urgent need to cut clinical laboratory costs. The second theme is the need for both clinical labs and anatomic pathology groups…

Volume XXXI, No. 11 – August 12, 2024

This issue identifies current lab trends as experienced by the two Blood Brothers, Labcorp and Quest Diagnostics, and delves into these trends. Also, a new survey highlights consumer healthcare trends that labs should be aware of.

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