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Top Stories in 2025 Played Out in Courts, Capitol Hill
CEO SUMMARY: The biggest story of the year for clinical laboratories came in a huge court victory, as a federal judge vacated the FDA’s final rule on laboratory developed tests. Labs breathed a sigh of relief after the court decision, as the FDA rule had promised to incr…
Strategies to Succeed with Laboratory Outreach Programs
In recent years Labcorp and Quest Diagnostics went on buying sprees, acquiring laboratory outreach businesses from major health systems. They argue that they can run these operations more efficiently, while the sellers get much-needed cash infusions. (See …
Quest, Labcorp Tout Their Alzheimer’s Tests and Use of AI
Executives at Quest Diagnostics and Labcorp cheered strong revenue growth in the third quarter. Both companies noted excellent recent launches of Alzheimer’s disease tests. In addition, both companies reported they are leaning heavily into artificial intelligen…
October 27, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
In yet another shuffling of the in vitro diagnostics (IVD) space, Hologic announced on Oct. 21 that it was being acquired by private equity firms Blackstone and TPG for $18.3 billion. The deal will take Hologic off the Nasdaq, likely in early 2026. TPG and Blackstone lauded Hol…
After Regaining Outreach, Lab Grows it by $10M
CEO SUMMARY: In this case study, Kootenai Health in Idaho explains how taking back lab outreach services from a commercial lab company can improve physician satisfaction, enhance patient care, and increase revenue. Although the transition was bumpy, within two years of bri…
National Lab Company Briefs
Quest, Labcorp Push Alzheimer’s Test Quest Diagnostics and Labcorp are now offering Fujirebio’s Lumipulse test, the first Food and Drug Administration-cleared blood-based assay for con…
Quest, Labcorp Discuss PAMA and M&A with Investors
WHILE LAUDING EXCELLENT GROWTH FOR THE SECOND QUARTER, executives at Labcorp and Quest Diagnostics also expressed concern over the Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA), which was passed by Congress in 2014 and which continues to cause uncertainty as full implementation is repeatedly…
An Insider’s Observances of Lab Outreach Deals
THERE ARE MANY WAYS TO VIEW CLINICAL LABORATORY OUTREACH ACQUISITIONS and the enormous amount of money changing hands in these deals. From one point of view, those fearful of the continued expansion of national lab giants like Labcorp and Quest Diagnostics may shive…
August 4, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, UnitedHealth Group (UHG) has acknowledged it is under investigation by the US Department of Justice (DOJ). “[UHG] proactively reached out to the Department of Justice after reviewing media reports about investigations into ce…
Leveraging Data to Create Lab and Healthcare Efficiencies
CEO SUMMARY: In this exclusive interview with The Dark Report, Bradley Bostic, founder, chair, and CEO of healthcare and laboratory data intelligence company hc1 discusses trends in healthcare, how to position clinical laboratories as a strategic asset, and ways to analyze…
CURRENT ISSUE
Volume XXXII, No. 18 – December 29, 2025
The Dark Report reviews its top 10 stories from 2025, from the vacating of the FDA’s LDT rule to the merger of Waters and Becton Dickinson’s biosciences and diagnostics units. Also, a lab outlines its solution to a shortage of histotechnologists, and another story shows how pathologists can become patients’ partners.
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