Memorial Hermann Sells Outreach Lab to Quest

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXVII No. 3 – February 17, 2020 Issue

>CEO SUMMARY: Need for more capital is probably one reason why Memorial Hermann Health System decided to sell its large clinical laboratory outreach business to Quest Diagnostics in a transaction both organizations announced on Jan. 27. Although terms of …

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Is There a Future for Hospital Lab Outreach Programs?

By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXVI No. 1 – January 14, 2019 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: This will be one of the most challenging years facing the clinical lab industry since the early 1990s. The CMS scheme to collect private payer lab test prices and use that data to set Medicare clinical laboratory test pric…

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Why PAMA May Be Poised to Disrupt Lab Industry

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVI No. 1 – January 14, 2019 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: This will be one of the most challenging years facing the clinical lab industry since the early 1990s, when closed panel HMOs were the disruptive force that generated deep cuts in lab test prices. However, unlike HMOs of that era, the CMS scheme to collect private payer lab t…

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Michigan’s Ascension to Standardize Labs Throughout the State

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXV No. 13 – September 10, 2018 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Two trends are driving a movement to standardize laboratory operations across large regions: the integration of clinical care and the need for hospitals and health networks to improve patient outcomes continuously. In Michigan, Ascension Health is an example of a lab team wor…

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Michigan’s Ascension labs work together to align with a fully integrated health system

By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXV No. 13 – September 10, 2018 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Two trends are driving a movement to standardize laboratory operations across large regions: the integration of clinical care and the need for hospitals and health networks to continuously improve patient outcomes. THE DARK REPORT outlines an ambitious program in Michigan, wh…

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Anthem accuses tiny hospital of pass-through billing scheme

By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXV No. 4 – March 5, 2018 Issue

This is an excerpt from a 1,300-word article in the March 5, 2018, 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: THE…

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Anthem Seeks $13.5M from California Hospital

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXV No. 4 – March 5, 2018 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Anthem charged 37-bed Sonoma West Medical Center in Sebastopol, Calif., of engaging in an improper billing scheme to defraud Anthem and its affiliated Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans. In effect, the charge is a notification to SWMC that Anthem intends to sue SWMC and its…

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Is the Worm Turning in Favor of Hospital Labs?

By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXIV No. 16 – November 20, 2017 Issue

SINCE THE MID-1990S, HOSPITAL OUTREACH LABORATORY PROGRAMS have lost market share steadily to the nation’s biggest public lab companies. In these two decades, public lab companies traded deeply-discounted lab test prices to health insurers in exchange for exclusive network provider status. Then, a…

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LabCorp, Quest, Sonic Do Hospital Lab Deals

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIV No. 4 – March 13, 2017 Issue

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…

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Are Clinical Labs Prepared for What Is to Come?

By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXIV No. 4 – March 13, 2017 Issue

IT IS TIMELY TO ASK THE QUESTION, “Are the nation’s clinical laboratories prepared to deal with the multiple challenges already visible in the healthcare marketplace today?” What leads me to ask this question is the unexpected number of deals involving the hospital lab outreach programs announ…

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