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Useful Info at War College On Molecular, Lean, et al
CEO SUMMARY: When the nation’s leading laboratory administrators and pathologists gather in New Orleans on April 27- 28, they will get the best and latest developments in laboratory management. From Aetna’s National Medical Director to the former Chief of the Industry Guidance Branch …
“March 15, 2004 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Bar codes will soon be an essential element in most laboratories. Final regulations published on February 26 by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will take effect during the next two years. The FDA is requiring that prescription and over-the-counter drugs given to hospital patients have bar code…
Diversifying Lab Management’s “Gene Pool” of Methods
I ENCOURAGE OUR CLIENTS AND REGULAR READERS to give careful thought to the intelligence findings provided by our editor about the unfolding laboratory joint venture in Cincinnati between LabOne, Inc. and The Health Alliance. (See …
LabOne in Cincinnati: Watch Events Unfold
CEO SUMMARY: It’s another example of a commercial laboratory taking over the laboratory assets of a multi-hospital consolidated laboratory. Will LabOne manage these assets and get more growth, more cost savings, and more profit? If this happens, it will mark the third time in r…
Spectrum Lab Network Expands Into Tennessee
CEO SUMMARY: During the past four years, this energized hospital laboratory joint venture has posted significant growth in its laboratory outreach program. One notable accomplishment has been the effective deployment and use of Web browser-based lab test orders and results reporting with …
New Healthcare Change Cycle Is Opportunity to Fix Problems
CEO SUMMARY: Healthcare’s new cycle of change will be greatly influenced by geneomics, proteomics, the Internet, consumer-driven healthcare, and political decisions that affect the Medicare and Medicaid programs. The launch of a such a new cycle of change presents the laboratory industr…
Price Discount Practices May Prove Troublesome
CEO SUMMARY: Some laboratories continue to offer deeply-discounted prices to the nation’s largest managed care plans as a way to maintain provider status and keep market share. In one case, these deep discounts surprised a long-time lab executive, who decided to share the information, a…
“February 23, 2004 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
There’s a new player offering clinical diagnostic services in oncology. Genomic Health, Inc., based in Redwood City, California, is now accepting specimens. Last month, its laboratory received all the regulatory clearances required to conduct business. The company’s proprietary technology is inco…
When Laboratory Vendors Go Bankrupt
BANKRUPTCY AMONG VENDORS AND SUPPLIERS in the laboratory industry is an uncommon event. Since it is so rare, that is one less issue about which laboratory directors and pathologists must worry. However, occasionally there are reminders that it is good management practice to track the financial stab…
LAB-Interlink Hangs On Despite Financial Woes
CEO SUMMARY: It’s an uphill struggle at LAB-Interlink, based in Omaha, Nebraska. Short of funds, staffed with only a few employees, and urgently seeking capital, the company has so far managed to avoid filing for protection under bankruptcy laws. It is an unwelcome turn of events, since…
CURRENT ISSUE
Volume XXXII, No. 10 – July 14, 2025
This issue is strong on different flavors of enforcement that clinical laboratories, whether they want to or not, will need to contend with. Lab stakeholders provide insights that medical labs need to brace for more action to counter pending test reimbursement rate cuts under PAMA. Also, this issue provides the legal and regulatory landscape for clinical labs’ use of AI and how it evolves with the technology. AI is creating legal uncertainty for clinical labs, especially around data privacy and FDA oversight of AI tools in diagnostics.
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