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Hospital Lab-Commercial Lab Partnering Is Upcoming Trend
CEO SUMMARY: At this year’s Executive War College in New Orleans, laboratory innovators convened to study hot new trends in the industry.They were surprised to learn that partnering relationships between hospital laboratories and commercial laboratories are finally gaining wider accepta…
Where Do We Go From Here?
THIS IS WRITTEN FOR BOTH LABORATORIANS COMING TO THE DARK REPORT’S Executive War College in New Orleans next week as well as those not attending. As I look at the registration list, I see a diverse range of attendees. Registered for this year’s event are CEOs of public laboratories and…
A Fable For Our Times: Lab Industry’s Golden Era
CEO SUMMARY: The clinical laboratory industry’s “Golden Era” is gone forever. Replacing it is a healthcare environment best described as “Darwinian.” It is now survival of the fittest, as hospital laboratories and commercial laboratories struggle to reinvent themselves. Case stu…
1997 LIS Sales Rankings Topped By Cerner, LabSoft
CEO SUMMARY: Consolidation in the LIS industry continued during 1997. The impact for laboratory buyers is that market share is concentrated among fewer vendors. Over the long term, this reduces choice and leads to an oligopoly-type of market. In the short-term, all LIS companies are compe…
SmithKline, AmeriPath, Quest, Tenet
TENET AND MEDPARTNERS CONTINUE TIGHTENING THEIR SO. CALIF. ALLIANCE Remember THE DARK REPORT’S prediction that …
National Labs Show Improved Finances For First Quarter, 1998
FIRST QUARTER FINANCIAL performance of the three national laboratories indicates that they may finally be past the worst of the managed care storm. On April 14, Quest Diagnostics Incorporated became the first of the three blood brothers to release earnings. First quarter revenues d…
HMOs Abandon Medicaid In Several Eastern States
CEO SUMMARY: In a number of states, certain HMOs have ceased servicing Medicaid patients. This trend will grow. It is the spearpoint for a coming battle between government healthcare programs and private healthcare providers: What level of reimbursement is adequate to provide appropriate …
Regionalization And Consolidation Continue
STORIES IN THIS ISSUE REVEAL HOW PERVASIVE THE TRENDS of regionalization and consolidation are. Whether one agrees or disagrees that managed care is the future of healthcare, it is obvious that regionalization and consolidation will continue to transform healthcare. Consolidation transformed the com…
Big Loss At MedPartners, Aetna Buys NY Life Unit
CEO SUMMARY: Consolidation of the healthcare industry may be continuing, but the process is not profitable for some of the country’s largest corporations. Clinical laboratories will continue to be impacted by the financial fortunes of these major players. Here’s why the troubles at Me…
Consumer Choice Decimates HMO Business Plan
I ENCOURAGE YOU TO CAREFULLY READ THE STORY about the financial woes of managed care plans in this issue. After virtual…
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Volume XXXII, No. 6 – April 21, 2025
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