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2008’s Top Ten Lab Stories Lacked Disruptive Impact
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 16 – December 01, 2008 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: For the first time in recent memory, a year has passed without major tumult or disruptive change in the laboratory industry. Our list of the Top Ten Most Important Stories of 2008 reflects a rather quiet year when compared to most years of this decade. Howeve…
LabCorp Talks to Its Clients About Service Enhancements
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 16 – December 01, 2008 Issue
BOTH NATIONAL LABORATORIES now face a future where growth is not likely to come from a steady stream of sizeable laboratory acquisitions. That makes service enhancements a more important way to protect market share and build client loyalty. At Laboratory Corporation of America, this…
Anticipate Access/Service Decline for S.D. Patients
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 18 – December 31, 2007 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In its primary push to use the Medicare Laboratory Competitive Bidding Demonstration Project as a tool to drive down the price Medicare pays for Part B laboratory testing services, CMS is giving secondary attention to patients’ needs. In particular, CMS seems to place littl…
Busy Year Demonstrated By Top Ten Lab Stories
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 17 – December 10, 2007 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: As it turns out, 2007 has been an action-packed year with lots of events, plenty of changes, and the promise of even faster evolution across all sectors of the lab testing marketplace. THE D…
Quest, LabCorp Slug It Out In Battle for Market Share
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 11 – August 6, 2007 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In reporting second quarter earnings, both Laboratory Corporation of America and Quest Diagnostics Incorporated discussed market developments. There were no surprises in the comments made by executives of both companies. Quest Diagnostics emphasized that it is hanging on to a…
Sonic Lands in New York with Sunrise Purchase
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 10 – July 16, 2007 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Sonic Healthcare Limited of Sydney, Australia, continues to open its checkbook and purchase independent laboratory companies here in the United States. The latest deal is its agreement to purchase Sunrise Medical Laboratories of Hauppauge, New York, for as much as $168 millio…
Sonic Pays $180 Million In Acquisition of AEL
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIII No. 17 – December 18, 2006 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In a transaction that was quietly negotiated, Sonic Healthcare Ltd. will purchase American Esoteric Laboratories, Inc. (AEL). News of the sale was released Friday and the sale may close in early January. Once it owns AEL, Sonic will have a major presence in Memphis, Tennessee…
Turning Up the Heat in California
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XIII No. 8 – June 12, 2006 Issue
FOR THE PAST TWO DECADES, CALIFORNIA HAS BEEN A PACE SETTER in healthcare and the clinical laboratory industry. Events in recent weeks seem to indicate that California will continue to move ahead of other regions in developments that influence the clinical laboratory industry. First, there is the im…
Review of 2004 Lab Sales Identifies Buyer Interest
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XII No. 3 – February 14, 2005 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Laboratory acquisition activity was surprisingly high during 2004. One reason is that new buyers appeared in the marketplace. However, all buyers have specific acquisition criteria. When a selling lab meets that criteria, it can expect multiple bidders and a strong purchase p…
Five Lab Acquisitions Over the Past Ten Weeks
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XII No. 3 – February 14, 2005 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Many lab executives and pathologists will be surprised to learn that five independent laboratory companies were acquired between December 1, 2004 and February 11, 2005. Only one acquisition was announced to the public. The other four were private sales and both buyers and sel…
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