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More IVD Consolidation: DPC Sells to Siemens
CEO SUMMARY: It is a significant acquisition, and not just because Diagnostic Products Corporation has a major presence in immunodiagnostics. Siemens Medical Solutions is one of the dominant competitors in radiology. Its willingness to pony up almost $2 billion t…
May 22, 2006 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Another investment firm has acquired an anatomic pathology company. It was announced today that Water Street Capital Partners of Chicago, Illinois, has acquired a majority ownership in Lakewood Pathology Associates, located in Lakewood, New Jersey. Under new ownershi…
Retrospective on Lab Automation in Japan
DO YOU REMEMBER BACK TO THE FIRST TIME YOU HEARD NEWS that national lab companies like MetPath, Inc. and…
April 10, 2006 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Another private lab company appears to have sold for a strong price. On March 21, 2006, American Capital Strategies Ltd. of Bethesda, Maryland, announced that it had invested $79.5 million in Redwood Toxicology Laboratory Inc., a drugs-of-abuse testing laboratory bas…
CYP450 Testing To Have Major Clinical Impact
CEO SUMMARY: Pharmacogenomics, companion diagnostics, “personalized prescription drug therapy”—by any name, use of molecular diagnostics to guide clinicians in the prescribing and dosing of drugs is about to expand exponentially. Some experts predict that CYP450 testing alone will …
CYP450 Plays Major Role In Drug Metabolization
CEO SUMMARY: Each year, over 100 million new prescriptions are written for two classes of drugs with metabolic pathways affected by genetic variations in cytochrome P450. There are strong clinical arguments in favor of testing individuals for these genetic mutations to determine whether t…
Victorville Community Hospital, Quest Diagnostics, ASCP, MIME
ASCP ACQUIRES MIME’S CYTOLOGY TRAINING AND PROFICIENCY TESTING IT WAS A BIG BREAK for pathologists and cytotechnologists involved in Pap testing. In a deal announced at the end of February, the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) has acquired “the complete cyt…
CMS Defers MUE Edits Until After Jan. 1, 2007
CEO SUMMARY: Medicare officials have granted a temporary respite on the troubling proposal to institute service restrictions per patient on some 80 pathology CPT codes and 1,100 clinical laboratory codes. These proposals are part of a new round of Medically Unbelievable Edits (MUEs). CMS …
MDS Intends to Divest All Lab Testing Assets
CEO SUMMARY: As part of a major corporate restructuring, MDS Inc. is selling three business units, including MDS Diagnostic Services. Within the Canadian healthcare system, this is a major event. MDS operates some of the nation’s largest laboratory facilities in its most populous provin…
Lab “Day of Disaster” Provides Useful Lessons
CEO SUMMARY: On Friday, May 5, laboratory administrators and pathologists who guided their labs through some of the nation’s biggest natural disasters and emergencies will gather in Miami to share their experiences in contingency planning and disaster response. It is no understatement t…
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Volume XXXII, No. 6 – April 21, 2025
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