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Will “Free Testing” Ploy Financially Affect Labs?
CEO SUMMARY: It’s a marketing scheme which public lab companies have quietly used for years. Now there is evidence that the use of “Waiver of Charges to Managed Care Patients” (free testing) seems to be on the increase, raising new questions about how and why competitive practices a…
Lab Competitors Pool Lab Data For Clinicians In British Columbia
CEO SUMMARY: In British Columbia, two commercial laboratory competitors have found common ground. BC Biomedical Laboratories and MDS Metro Laboratories are using LOINC to link their laboratory test databases. Physicians use a single system to access their patient’s test results, regardl…
Quest Diagnostics, CVS Pharmacies, Premier, Novation, Luminex, Careside.
QUEST DOES DEAL WITH CVS DRUGSTORES FOR LAB TESTING PATHOLOGISTS CONCERNED about pharmacists moving into the lab testing arena should closely watch the newly-announced relationship between Quest Diagnostics Incorporated and CVS Corporation. Starting this m…
Attack on Clinical Path Professional Payments
MANY PATHOLOGISTS WITH AN ECONOMIC INTEREST in clinical pathology professional component reimbursement have yet to fully appreciate the impact of an unfavorable decision rendered by a Florida appeals court recently. As you will read on page 5, an insurance company in Florida was actively sending let…
Lab Testing to Boom During This Decade
CEO SUMMARY: Several recent acquisitions of lab test technology by billion-dollar diagnostics manufacturers reinforce a new reality in the healthcare marketplace: developing new diagnostic tests is faster, cheaper, and more profitable than developing new pharmaceutical products. This simp…
Specialty Laboratories’ New CEO Reveals How His Company Is Changing
“You will see a more tightly focused Specialty Labs. We won’t try and do everything, rather we will do what is important for our customers.” —Douglas S. Harrington, M.D CEO SUMMARY: In recent months, several events roiled the market for hos…
Big Premium Increases Drive Higher Profits at Nation’s HMOs
EVEN AS EMPLOYERS COMPLAIN about spiraling healthcare costs, the nation’s biggest health insurers are enjoying robust profits. That brings up the interesting question about whether providers, including laboratories, can get better pricing during the next year, since HMOs are again profita…
Unfolding Events at Unilab, Specialty Labs and Dynacare
RECENT WEEKS BROUGHT important developments to several public lab companies. Each development changes and alters the competitive marketplace for laboratory testing services. It was big news at Specialty Laboratories, Inc. when the troubled lab company signed a Plan of Correction (PO…
Two New Public Labs Launch Operations in FL
CEO SUMMARY: In 49 states, independent commercial laboratory companies are disappearing. But that’s not the case in Florida. In recent months, two new public laboratory companies completed organizational steps and now offer diagnostic testing services. Both companies are starting small,…
United Kingdom Soon to Tackle Consolidation of Hospital Labs
CEO SUMMARY: Consolidation and regionalization of hospital laboratory testing are not isolated phenomenons. Beginning in the late 1980s, individual provinces in Canada began to rationalize lab testing services by building core labs and consolidating lab services across multiple hospitals….
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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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