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Lab Acquisitions: LabCorp, Quest, Sonic Do Hospital Lab Deals
This is an excerpt from a 1,021-word article in the March 13, 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: …
LabCorp, Quest, Sonic Do Hospital Lab Deals
CEO SUMMARY: Is the New Year’s spate of deals involving the sales of hospital lab outreach programs and a new joint venture the first tremors of an impending earthquake of similar transactions? In the first 10 weeks of 2017, Laboratory Corporation of America, Quest Diagnostics, and Soni…
Expense of Phlebotomy Leases Raise Cost of Care in Australia
CEO SUMMARY: In the United States, medical labs have long recognized that paying over-market rates to lease phlebotomy space in physicians’ officers is an inducement and a violation of federal anti-kickback laws. In Australia, a law in 2010 that removed the cap on what labs could pay to…
Much Disruption for Labs In 2016’s Top 10 Stories
CEO SUMMARY: Within THE DARK REPORT’S list of the Top 10 Lab Industry Stories for 2016 is one story of disruption that might have been one story of disruption about to happen. The disintegration of Theranos during 2016 is the big story about a self-proclaimed disruptor of the lab indust…
BeaconLBS is coming to Texas
This is an excerpt from a 1,200-word article in the October 17 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. …
UnitedHealthcare to Bring BeaconLBS to Texas
CEO SUMMARY: With a quiet announcement this month that it was bringing its laboratory benefit management program to Texas on March 1, 2017, UnitedHealthcare is taking on a big challenge. Enrollment in UHC’s commercial plans in Texas is 4.3 million. That is twice the two million commerci…
Cepheid, Sequenom Acquisitions Further Consolidate Lab Testing
TWO ACQUISITIONS FURTHER consolidated the clinical laboratory testing industry in recent weeks. The acquired companies were Sequenom and Cepheid. Sequenom went first. On July 27, Laboratory Corporation of America announced an agreement to acquire …
ADLT Final Rule Creates Tough Questions for Labs
IT’S GOING TO BE A DIFFERENT AND TOUGHER WORLD for laboratory companies that market proprietary molecular and genetic tests. That’s the opinion of experts who have studied the final rule governing Advanced Diagnostic Laboratory Tests (ADLTs) that the federal Centers for Medicare & Med…
New Threat To Community Lab Survival: CMS Clinical Lab Fee Schedule Cuts
This is an excerpt from a 2,000-word article in the July 5 issue of THE DARK REPORT. The original article is available to paid members of the Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: Everyone has read the basic facts, but THE DARK REPORT has gone further …
PAMA Final Rule a Threat To Community Lab Survival
CEO SUMMARY: Will implementation of the final PAMA private payment rate reporting rule for labs put smaller, community labs at financial risk? Yes, says the National Independent Laboratory Association (NILA). By deliberately setting a standard to exclude private payer payment data from ho…
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