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Time to Change Bad Medicare Lab Policies
BYZANTINE MEDICARE REGULATIONS AND BELTWAY POLITICS are uncommon topics for THE DARK REPORT. There are any number of other sources out there that provide ample details about laboratory compliance, the complexities of billing and coding, and whether Senator Smootly will or won’t vote for reinstating…
Lab Industry Easing Back to Financial Stability
IT MAY NOT BE JUBILATION, BUT THERE’S CERTAINLY LESS DESPERATION among laboratories around the United States. In travels around the country, both commercial laboratories and hospital laboratories tell THE DARK REPORT that the 2000 was unusually free of crises. It was also a more productive financia…
Number of Hospital Deals Declines Again in 2000
CEO SUMMARY: Probably the single biggest contributing factor to consolidation of hospital laboratories is when new owners or new healthcare systems take control of a hospital. For 2000, merger and acquisition activity in the hospital industry declined in 2000 by 40%. A total of 318 hospit…
DNA Diagnostics Market, Kaiser Permanente, TriPath Imaging, LifeScan
DNA DIAGNOSTICS MARKET GROWTH TO BE DOMINATED BY PCR TECHNOLOGY FOR THE YEAR 2000, total DNA diagnostic technology sales were estimated to be $517 million. By 2005, this number should increase to $771 million, a growth rate of 8.4% per year. This is the conclusion of Laura Roth, author of â…
Competitive Dynamics In the Laboratory Testing Marketplace
This section of the White Paper deals with the marketplace for laboratory services. For brevity and clarity, I will address five components: 1) independent commercial laboratories; 2) hospital-based laboratories; 3) esoteric, reference, and specialty testing laboratories; 4) anatomic pathology lab- o…
Year’s Ten Biggest Stories Reveal Modest Changes
CEO SUMMARY: In many ways, 2000 was a relatively quiet year for laboratory organizations. This list of the ten biggest stories in the lab industry for 2000 demonstrates that the most innovative laboratory organizations in the United States are “raising the bar†for service and quality…
Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics Embraces New Testing Technology
CEO SUMMARY: Despite a decade of consolidation, competition among the world’s largest diagnostics manufacturers remains intense. In response to this competition, Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics (OCD) is preparing a variety of new products and services for its clinical laboratory customers. I…
Premier’s Lab Vendors Hooking Up Via Internet
CEO SUMMARY: Laboratory members of Premier will soon be purchasing instruments, reagents, and supplies through medibuy.com’s Internet healthcare e-commerce site. Four major lab industry suppliers are actively working to link with the medibuy.com and Premier Web sites. For Premier, this …
Cheerios® Teaching Consumers Facts About Laboratory Testing
FOR YEARS, BOTH HOSPITAL LABS and independent commercial labs considered physicians and payers to be the primary customers for lab testing. The lab testing needs of patients as customers seldom came up when lab managers discussed how to organize and deliver their lab’s testing services. In fact, m…
IPO Is Major Strategy For American Med Labs
CEO SUMMARY: Since its acquisition in 1997, American Medical Laboratories’ fast growth was funded by heavy borrowing. Now this Virginia-based lab company needs to raise additional capital so it can restructure its debt and lay a foundation for the next cycle of growth. Its initial publi…
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Volume XXXII, No. 6 – April 21, 2025
Now that a federal judge has vacated the FDA’s LDT rule, The Dark Report analyzes the judgement and notes the various steps the FDA could take in response. Also, lab testing at pharmacies is proving to be less successful than was once anticipated.
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