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UnitedHealthcare’s Z-code Policy Starts on Aug. 1
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, No. 10 – July 10, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: UnitedHealthcare’s (UHC) response to the ever-growing number of unique genetic tests and the continuing growth in the volume of those claims is a new policy. Effective Aug. 1, UHC will require a Z-code with genetic test claims. This req…
May 30, 2023, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX, No. 8 – May 30, 2023 Issue
Hospital laboratory outreach programs continue to be acquisition targets for national laboratory companies. Earlier this month, Labcorp in Burlington, North Carolina, announce…
Quest, Labcorp Both Report Growth in Base Lab Business
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX, No. 7 – May 8, 2023 Issue
DURING THE LATEST QUARTERLY EARNINGS REPORTS from Quest Diagnostics and Labcorp, it was largely “same old, same old” as base business continues to improve post-pandemic, while C…
Quest Acquires Lab Outreach from New York-Presbyterian
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX, No. 6 – April 17, 2023 Issue
IT’S THE LATEST DEAL THAT AFFIRMS STATEMENTS by executives of the two largest national labs that hospital CEOs have a growing interest in selling their laboratory outreach businesses. Recently, Quest Diagnostics announced that it will take over the labor…
IVD Firms Prepare for OTC, Home Test Market Expansion
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, No. 6 – April 17, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: With public interest in home testing growing, some IVD manufacturers are preparing to serve a fast-expanding market for over-the-counter and at-home tests. IVD firms are banking on the…
Enzo Biochem’s Lab Business Sold to Labcorp for $146M
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX, No. 5 – March 27, 2023 Issue
COMMERCIAL LABORATORY CONSOLIDATION CONTINUES, this time with news earlier this month that New York City-based Enzo Biochem agreed to sell its clinical laboratory business to Labcorp. The deal points to the problem many clinical laboratori…
Acquisitions Bloom, at the Expense of Hospital Labs?
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXX No. 4 – March 6, 2023 Issue
READERS WILL UNCOVER A THEME OF MERGERS AND CONSOLIDATIONS running throughout this issue of The Dark Report. Whether it be health systems acquiring or merging with each other or national laboratory companies seeking to run hospital lab businesses, it is an unstable time for …
Laboratory Implications of Sanford/Fairview Merger
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX No. 4 – March 6, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Not too many years ago, many hospitals and health systems were bullish on their laboratory outreach businesses. But financial pressures on hospitals and health systems may be causing the pendulum to swing in the direction of hospitals selling their lab outreach programs…
Labcorp: Ascension Deal Will Earn $550 Million in 2023
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX No. 4 – March 6, 2023 Issue
PUBLICLY TRADED LABORATORY COMPANIES OFFERED INSIGHTS into how acquisitions of hospital lab operations and outreach businesses add to their bottom lines, according to recent reports on full-year 2022 and fourth quarter earnings. Last year was a busy one…
Pandemic Helped Lab with Hospital Leaders
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX No. 3 – February 13, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Growth at Atrium Health during the COVID-19 pandemic elevated its clinical laboratory’s profile with medical leaders and health system administrators. What followed was a new spirit of collaboration that led to lab involvement in cost savings efforts, such as improved…
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