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LabCorp And Quest Report 3rd Quarter Financial Performance
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 15 – November 10, 2008 Issue
CEO Summary: In third quarter earnings reports, both national lab companies posted modest gains in specimen volume, revenue, and net profit. More telling is the relative quiet in the current market for lab testing services. With no obvious opportunities to fuel double-digit rates of growt…
Growth Conundrum Confronts Quest and LabCorp
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XV No. 15 – November 10, 2008 Issue
AFTER MORE THAN TWO DECADES of buying up almost every attractive laboratory asset that came up for sale—and with few lab acquisition candidates left to buy—Laboratory Corporation of America and Quest Diagnostics Incorporated find themselves in an interesting conu…
Busy Year Demonstrated By Top Ten Lab Stories
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 17 – December 10, 2007 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: As it turns out, 2007 has been an action-packed year with lots of events, plenty of changes, and the promise of even faster evolution across all sectors of the lab testing marketplace. THE D…
Quest Wants It Both Ways with Payer Contracts
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 8 – June 4, 2007 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Once again, public laboratory companies are pursuing short-term strategies that promise competitive advantage to themselves. But these strategies also carry long term risks that could burden the entire laboratory industry. Contradictions in the current cycle of competition fo…
LabCorp Exec Discusses Reasons Behind Its 10-Year Pact with United
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIII No. 14 – October 16, 2006 Issue
“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 …
Bi-Annual Look at Trends Reshaping Clinical Labs
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XII No. 2 – January 24, 2005 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Among other things, we declare the end to the heyday of the independent commercial lab company which offers a broad test menu to all types of office-based physicians. In its place springs forth the specialty or niche testing laboratory. Small and focused on a specific number …
Market Demand for Pathologists Shifts Toward Specialization
By Robert Michel | From the Volume X No. 15 – November 10, 2003 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Unlike the slack employment market for pathologists seen during the 1990s, there is strong demand for pathologists in this decade. Private pathology group practices now face competition for the best pathology talent. That’s because public lab companies are regularly in the …
Two Blood Brothers Ramp Up Marketing of New Lab Assays
By Robert Michel | From the Volume X No. 14 – October 20, 2003 Issue
GROWTH IN SPECIMEN VOLUME and revenues is the major challenge at the nation’s two largest laboratory corporations. How Laboratory Corporation of America and Quest Diagnostics Incorporated solve this problem will affect and influence every remaining clinical labora…
Several Major Surprises Mark Events of 2002
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IX No. 17 – December 9, 2002 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: It was a year when the two blood brothers got much bigger and expanded market share by buying their largest competitors. With patient safety as the goal, employers began active steps to force hospitals, physicians, and other healthcare providers to use quality management syst…
Quiet Changes To Ripple Drugs-of-Abuse Market
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IX No. 17 – December 9, 2002 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Drugs-of-abuse (DOA) testing is an intensely-competitive market poised for significant change. Historically, national lab companies have been the major players and used rock-bottom prices to control the nation’s biggest corporate DOA clients. But since this line of testing …
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