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Quest Sells OralDNA, HemoCue To Clear Its Decks for 2013
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XX No. 1 – January 22, 2013 Issue
THIS WEEK, Quest Diagnostics Incorporated will issue its fourth quarter and full year 2012 financial report. In anticipation of this, the nation’s largest lab company has been cleaning out its closets, so to speak. With its new CEO finishing out his first eight months of service, …
Ascend Clinical Acquires PathCentral Lab Business
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XIX No. 18 – December 31, 2012 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Ascend Clinical and PathCentral see an opportunity to provide sophisticated services to community pathology groups. Ascend Clinical will expand the molecular diagnostic and gene sequencing business it is purchasing from PathCentral. PathCentral will concentrate on marketing i…
December 31, 2012 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIX No. 18 – December 31, 2012 Issue
It is likely that the latest lab acquisition by Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc. (BRLI) is for the purpos…
Sonic Healthcare Acquires Labs from Aussie Competitor
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XIX No. 8 – June 4, 2012 Issue
LABORATORY CONSOLIDATION continues in Australia with news that Sonic Healthcare Limited of Sydney, Australia, has agreed to acquire three clinical laboratory business units from competitor Healthscope, Ltd., of Melbourne, Australia. The acquisition was announced on …
A Tale of Two Laboratories
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XVII No. 4 – March 21, 2011 Issue
ON OPPOSITE COASTS OF THE UNITED STATES, two of the nation’s larger laboratory companies are charting very different courses. Yet, in this tale of two laboratories, each lab company has important lessons to teach hospital CEOs about the many benefits that accrue from a well-run hospital laboratory …
Sonic Makes Big Play In AP With CBL Path Buy
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 16 – November 15, 2010 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: With the announcement that it will purchase CBL Path, Inc., Sonic Healthcare, Ltd., becomes the latest public laboratory company to buy a sizeable presence in the national anatomic pathology (AP) marketplace. For CBL Path, founded in 2003 by ex-Dianon executives and …
August 2, 2010 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 11 – August 2, 2010 Issue
It was a productive second quarter for MED-TOX Scientific, Inc., of St. Paul, Minnesota. Total revenue climbed 18.1%, to $25.2 million, compared to $21.3 million for the same period in 2009. Operating income grew to $1.5 million, an increase of 176%. Known as a drugs of abuse testing…
Two New Pathology Models Will Soon Be Tried in Dallas
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 4 – March 8, 2010 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: There are notable aspects to how and why four unlikely partners are banding together to invest $40 million and create the nation’s newest reference and esoteric testing laboratory. It was the pathologists at Baylor University Hospital in Dallas, Texas, who originated the vi…
Assessing the Year-End Financials For Nation’s Biggest Lab Companies
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 4 – March 8, 2010 Issue
IN RECENT WEEKS, the last of the nation’s largest public laboratory companies released year-end 2009 financial reports. Each lab firm’s financial report provides useful insights about active trends in the lab testing marketplace, particularly in lab testing referred by office-based physicians. …
Predict 2010 To Be Busy For Lab Owners & Buyers
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 3 – February 15, 2010 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Along with a recovering economy, the possibility of an increase in the capital gains tax rate for 2011 may encourage owners of clinical labs and anatomic pathology companies to sell their businesses during 2010. That could make 2010 a busy year for laboratory…
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