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Specialty Laboratories, Enterix, Medicare, Blue Cross/Blue Shield Association
SPECIALTY LABORATORIES REPORTS THIRD QUARTER FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE THIRD QUARTER FINANCIAL REPORTS for Specialty Laboratories, Inc. show that the company is returning to a more normal routine, following the two unusual and unrelated events which hit it during 2002. Special…
Market Demand for Pathologists Shifts Toward Specialization
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 …
Bio-Reference Labs An Example Of How Regional Labs Can Grow
IT’ S QUARTERLY EARNINGS TIME, which makes it possible to evaluate trends in the laboratory services marketplace by looking at the performance of public laboratory companies. Because of their large size and market dominance, the two national laboratory companies are closely watched to see how they…
Mergers Create Two Huge National Health Insurers
ANOTHER ROUND OF CONSOLIDATION among health insurers has created a new “biggest in the nation” company and boosted the size of the second largest health insurance company. On October 28, in separate announcements that were just 30 minutes apart, Anthem Inc. disclosed it would pa…
“November 10, 2003 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Has the disappearance of much despised closed panel HMOs eased the financial woes of physicians? Apparently not, according to a recent study. Medical groups are losing money. Nationwide, the average loss-per-physician by medical groups was $3,977. In the 2003 survey, 25,784 physicians responded, a 26…
OIG Moves to Address “Usual Charge” Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Federal regulators are taking another crack at defining “usual charges.” Language in the proposed rules published last month precisely defines which payers should be included in determining “usual charges” and what charge basis to use for specific payers. Once effecti…
No Disruptive Technology In Lab Industry’s Future
CEO SUMMARY: As new diagnostic technologies move through the development pipeline and into widespread clinical use, the scientific knowledge and skill sets needed by laboratory staff and management will change. The emphasis in laboratory medicine will evolve to include more molecular tech…
Looking at Fast-Growth And Slow-Growth Areas In Diagnostic Testing
CEO SUMMARY: This exclusive intelligence briefing predicts how specific new technologies may drive changes in the laboratory-testing marketplace during the next five years. The key message is that change is expected to be incremental, not disruptive—given the technology known to be in d…
Two Blood Brothers Ramp Up Marketing of New Lab Assays
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…
“October 20, 2003 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Here’s a reminder that corporate fraud didn’t bypass healthcare. Last week Albert Bergonzi, former Executive Vice President of McKesson/HBOC, pled guilty to violations of securities laws. He admitted that he had “cooked the books” around the time of HBOC’s acquisition by Mc…
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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