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Predict 2010 To Be Busy For Lab Owners & Buyers
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…
Ireland Is Restructuring National Lab Test System
CEO SUMMARY: Working from a consultant’s report and recommendations based on studies dating back to 2006 and 2007, Ireland’s Health Service Executive is moving forward to effect a comprehensive reconfiguration of clinical laboratory testing across the nation. This ma…
Pathology, Inc. Sells Equity to Raise Capital
CEO SUMMARY: In looking how to propel its business to the next level, the partners at Pathology, Inc., opted not to sell their pathology group practice. Instead, they chose to raise capital by selling equity in their company to a group of investors. In this exclusive interview, executives…
2009’s Top Ten Lab Stories Reflect Some Good, Bad
CEO SUMMARY: As the closing year of the first decade of the new century and the new millennium, 2009 brought neither disruption nor upheaval to the majority of laboratories in the United States. Rather, it was marked by at least two themes. One was how public disclosure of problems with l…
Lab Test Fiasco Unfolding In Auckland, New Zealand
CEO SUMMARY: This may be the shortest lab testing contract honeymoon ever. Just ten days after LabTests became responsible for an exclusive, eight-year lab testing contract covering the Auckland area, problems with its service and operation caused District Health Board (DHB) offi…
Audacious Lab Contract Shows Downside Risks
CEO SUMMARY: In Auckland, New Zealand, unfolding events may soon reveal the answer to a long-standing question in pathology: is there a point where deep cuts to payment for lab testing causes such a decline in quality and service that other health services undergo disruption? Dis…
Lab M&A Deals in June Show Market Direction
CEO SUMMARY: Despite a dismal economy, the month of June spawned two interesting merger/acquisition transactions in the lab testing industry. In one case, a blood brother gobbled up a specialty diagnostics company. In another transaction, two cross-town neighbors in Kansas City m…
DARK REPORT and Editor Michel Earn National Reporting Award
FOR THE SECOND TIME in recent years, Editor Robert L. Michel and THE DARK REPORT have won a national award for “Best Investigative Reporting.” In Washington, DC, last month, at the Specialized Information Publishers Association (SIPA) annual conference, Editor Michel learned tha…
A Guilty Plea and A Global Flu Emergency
APRIL 2009 IS ON ITS WAY TO BECOMING A MILESTONE MONTH for the laboratory testing industry. On April 15, even as corporate officials from Quest Diagnostics Incorporated were walking into a federal courthouse to plead guilty to a criminal felony charge, health officia…
Why Wall Street Likes Histology Lab Business
CEO SUMMARY: Over the past two decades, investor-owned anatomic pathology companies captured significant market share from community hospital-based pathology groups while delivering profits to their owners. Despite the recent downturn in the economy, Wall Street believes histolog…
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Volume XXXII, No. 6 – April 21, 2025
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