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Disease Management Relies On Lab Testing
CEO SUMMARY: Predictions are that 30% of large corporations will offer disease management programs for their employees by the end of next year. Disease management seems to be the next form of managed care, where prevention and early detection are the primary goals. Laboratories should be …
“October 28, 2002 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
IBM continues to muscle its way into healthcare informatics using the concept of “grid computing.” It’s already working with the University of Pennsylvania to create a computer network and data repository that will store mammograms and allow a patient’s past …
ARUP & Mayo Respond To New Market Cycle
CEO SUMMARY: Since the beginning of 2002, several important events changed the competitive status quo among the nation’s leading providers of hospital send-out testing. As part of its ongoing assessment of this market segment, THE DARK REPORT provides strategic management insights from …
Quest & LabCorp Encounter Different Business Hurdles
IT’S BEEN TOUGH SLEDDING in recent months for both Laboratory Corporation of America and Quest Diagnostics Incorporated. THE DARK REPORT believes there may be significance in these developments. Both national labs find themselves confronted with unexpected obstacl…
Removing Lab Players From the Chessboard
IN 1997-98, CEO Ken Freeman of Quest Diagnostics Incorporated made a keen insight about the commercial lab marketplace. At that time the three blood brothers—Laboratory Corporation of America, Quest Diagnostics, and SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories…
Non-Pathologists Altering U.S. Laboratory Industry
CEO SUMMARY: It’s an interesting contradiction. On one hand, most pathologists enthusiastically recognize the value that diagnostic testing services provide to the healthcare community. On the other hand, too often it is non-laboratorians who provide the investment capital and entrepren…
Changes Expected in Market For Hospital Reference Testing
CEO SUMMARY: For the hospital send-out testing marketplace, 2002 has been an eventful year. First came the acquisition of American Medical Laboratories by Quest Diagnostics Incorporated. In April, Specialty Laboratories disclosed its problems with state and federal laboratory regulators. …
Reactions To FL Court’s Ruling On Clin Path Fees
CEO SUMMARY: Reimbursement for clinical pathology professional services is under attack in a variety of ways throughout the United States. Recently a Florida Court of Appeal added a new court ruling to the growing body of legal decisions on this topic. Careful study of the ruling shows th…
Read “Waiver of Charges” for What It Is: FREE!
TODAY I AM AN OLD CURMUDGEON WHO IS IN HIGH DUDGEON. What’s got my dander up is the disturbing revelation in this issue of THE DARK REPORT about the willingness by some of our industry’s biggest companies to use “free testing” as a way to protect and build market share. (See pages 2-8…
Two Blood Brothers Use “Free Testing” Strategy
CEO SUMMARY: It’s a business strategy that Quest Diagnostics Incorporated and Laboratory Corporation of America use in selected areas where they have lost exclusive managed care contracts to regional lab competitors. In order to retain access to a physician’s fee-for-service testing b…
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Volume XXXII, No. 13 – September 15, 2025
The Dark Report examines a new bill that would reform PAMA and avoid reimbursement rate cuts scheduled for January 2026. Clinical laboratory leaders are urged to make their voices heard in Congress. Also, an expert describes how labs can fix pre-analytical errors and avoid disaster.
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