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Review of Genetic Testing Companies During 2024
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 1 – January 6, 2025 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Investors in genetic testing companies are taking it on the chin these days. During 2024, a number of the nation’s largest firms providing genetic test services reported significant losses. Other genetic testing companies are dealing with class action lawsuits claiming that…
January 6, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 1 – January 6, 2025 Issue
In response to the 2021 federal law requiring all medical test results to be released to a patient’s electronic medical record upon availability, a team of researchers at Michigan Medicine recently conducted a study to learn whether patients could understand the standard pathology …
Lab Briefs: Dec. 16, 2024
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 17 – December 16, 2024 Issue
55,000 Members of Class Action Case Involving Labcorp…
November 25, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 16 – November 25, 2024 Issue
Disruption is happening in the consumer genetic testing marketplace. In recent weeks, news outlets in the United Kingdom reported that Atlas Biomed, a consumer genetic testing company founded in 2016, had simply “disappeared.” Malwarebytes said Atlas Biomed’s “London offices …
Getting Test Claims Paid & Class Action Lawsuits
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXXI No. 15 – November 4, 2024 Issue
When you crack open this issue of The Dark Repor…
Internet Tracking Lawsuits Target Quest and Labcorp
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI No. 15 – November 4, 2024 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Here is the clinical lab industry’s first intelligence briefing on how class action attorneys are filing lawsuits against healthcare providers—including clinical laboratories. The allegations are that providers are using internet tracking tools, such as those offered by M…
Insights from Q3 2024 Earnings Calls Point to a More Robust Lab Market
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI No. 15 – November 4, 2024 Issue
FOR THE THIRD QUARTER OF 2024 (Q3 2024), both of the nation’s largest publicly traded laboratories—Labcorp…
Allina Doctors Express Concerns after Quest Acquires Lab Outreach
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 14 – October 14, 2024 Issue
IN RECENT YEARS, QUEST DIAGNOSTICS AND LABCORP, the two behemoths of the U.S. clinical laboratory market, have been aggressively acquiring lab businesses from health systems across the country. They say that patients and providers will benefit from lower costs and be…
Hospital Lab Outreach: Still a Valuable Asset!
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 13 – September 23, 2024 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Hospital lab administrators everywhere are watching press releases announcing the latest agreement of a major health system selling its laboratory outreach business to one of the billion-dollar lab corporations. The pace of these sales is accelerating. These deals confirm the…
September 23, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 13 – September 23, 2024 Issue
One sign of the financial turmoil associated with the market for genetic tests is the news that all seven independent directors of 23andMe’s board resigned at the same time on Sept. 18. The reason given was that these directors opposed the plan of CEO and co-founder Anne Wojcicki t…
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