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ISO 15189 Work Advances at Meeting in Vancouver
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 8 – June 16, 2008 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Laboring quietly out of the public eye, an international work team of professionals, including representatives from the CDC, the FDA, and global in vitro diagnostics (IVD) manufacturers, has spent the past 14 years developing an important series of quality and safety standard…
PhyTest Assists Doctors With Lab Testing Revenue
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 6 – May 5, 2008 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: PhyTest, Inc., created a unique business model upon its founding in 1998. It primarily specializes in handling laboratory test billing and collection services to office-based physicians. It also provides evaluation, consulting, and implementation services to help physicians i…
Powerful Trends Reshaping Anatomic Path Profession
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 2 – February 11, 2008 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: THE DARK REPORT presents its newest biannual review of macro trends reshaping the anatomic pathology profession. These macro trends reveal a profession undergoing change and transformation on multiple fronts. New competitors are crowding into the market, payers and accreditin…
Using a 1997 Bid Model In a 2007 Health Market
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 18 – December 31, 2007 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: It’s been a long path from concept to implementation for a competitive bidding demonstration involving clinical lab services. It was in the mid-1980s when CMS commenced work on designing such a demonstration. In the 1990s, RTI International continued devel…
Building the Better Mousetrap for Lab Outreach
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XIV No. 17 – December 10, 2007 Issue
IS THERE A BLUEPRINT for building a thriving, successful hospital outreach program in a new market? If so, it would certainly be a best seller among hospitals seeking new sources of revenues and profits from outreach …
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…
How PAML Built a Major Business In Lab Joint Ventures with Hospitals
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 17 – December 10, 2007 Issue
“A well-structured laboratory joint venture helps the hospital partner tap the unrealized value of its laboratory, because the independent lab partner provides capital, along with experience, and expertise to s…
A Pricing Strategy Soon to Boomerang?
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XIV No. 15 – October 29, 2007 Issue
HAVE NATIONAL LAB COMPANIES CREATED A REIMBURSEMENT BOOMERANG that will erode financial stability for the entire laboratory industry in the United States? I ask that question because the Medicare Competitive Bidding Demonstration Project for Laboratory Services has selected San Diego to be its first …
Competing Against Regional Laboratories
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XIV No. 11 – August 6, 2007 Issue
SINCE THE 1980S, THERE HAS BEEN COMPETITIVE TENSION between publicly traded laboratory companies and their regional counterparts—both independent labs and hospital laboratory outreach programs. It’s an understatement to say that both sectors of the laboratory community often wish the other was no…
Unprecedented Activity Across Lab Medicine
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 11 – August 6, 2007 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Laboratory medicine is now considered one of the best opportunities to profit as the demand for healthcare services skyrockets, both in the United States and throughout the world. This is why a flood of investment capital is washing into the laboratory industry. Loaded with c…
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