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For Top 20 Tests, CMS to Cut Payment by 28% in 2018-2020
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIV No. 14 – October 9, 2017 Issue
ON SEPT. 22, MEDICARE OFFICIALS RELEASED THE DRAFT PRICES for the 2018 Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule. The bad news for the lab industry is that the fee cuts are deeper than the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services had predicted earlier. The price cuts to clinical la…
NYU Langone and Sonic Healthcare Create Laboratory Outreach Joint Venture
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIV No. 13 – September 18, 2017 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: NYU Langone Health recognized the clinical and financial advantages of providing competitive lab outreach testing services to its employed physicians. The laboratory joint venture with Sonic Healthcare USA will allow NYU Langone to increase use of its hospital labs and will f…
Details Emerge About End of 31-Year Lab JV
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIV No. 10 – July 17, 2017 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Quest Diagnostics is no longer an equity partner in the CompuNet Clinical Laboratory joint venture, which has operated successfully since its founding in 1986. Typical of other lab JVs and inpatient lab management agreements that the hospital or health system partners do not rene…
PeaceHealth Outreach Laboratory Sells to Quest Diagnostics
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXIV No. 3 – February 21, 2017 Issue
This is an excerpt from a 1,471-word article in the February 21, 2017, issue of THE DARK REPORT. The complete article is available for a limited time to all readers, and available at all times to paid members of the Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY…
PeaceHealth Labs Sold To Quest Diagnostics
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIV No. 3 – February 21, 2017 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In Oregon, one of the nation’s more successful and long-established health system outreach laboratories will cease to exist following its sale to Quest Diagnostics Incorporated. The seller explained that the Medicare Part B price cuts coming as a result of the PAMA market p…
Sonora Quest PSCs in Safeway Stores Prove Popular with Consumers
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII No. 14 – October 17, 2016 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In a pilot program started in November 2015, Sonora Quest Laboratories built patient service centers in two Safeway grocery stores. That program went so well that patients filled available appointments in a matter of weeks. Sonora Quest even reported an increase in the number…
HDL Founders, BlueWave, Shareholders Sued for $600 Million by Bankruptcy Trustee
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII No. 13 – September 26, 2016 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Unlike federal prosecutors, who to date have shown little interest in seeking to recover money from either the physicians who accepted inducements from Health Diagnostic Laboratory or many of the shareholders, executives, and sales consultants of HDL, the trustee of the HDL b…
Health Diagnostics Laboratory lawsuit seeks $600M; will it establish a new precedent?
By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXIII No. 13 – September 26, 2016 Issue
This is an excerpt from a 1,350-word article in the September 26 issue of THE DARK REPORT. The complete article is available for a limited time to all readers, and available at all times to paid members of the Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: It’…
A Pantheon of Greatest Lab Physician-Businessmen
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXIII No. 4 – March 21, 2016 Issue
WHEN IT COMES TO THE CLINICAL LABORATORY BUSINESS, generally included in the lab industry’s Pantheon of Greatest Physician (Pathologist) Businessmen are Paul A. Brown, MD, and James B. Powell, MD. I’d like to nominate another physician to this list: Marc D. Grodman, MD. During the 1970s and 1980…
LabCorp Now Larger than Quest, Two Labs Report 2015 Earnings
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIII No. 3 – February 29, 2016 Issue
IN RECENT WEEKS, the nation’s two largest lab companies reported fourth quarter and full-year earnings for 2015. The earnings reports reveal how the paths of the two companies are diverging. The companies are diverging because of a major acquisition made in February 2015, by Laboratory Cor…
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