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West Hills Lab Outreach Still Thrives in California
By Robert Michel | From the Volume X No. 13 – September 29, 2003 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Now in its seventh year, the lab outreach program at West Hills Hospital and Medical Center in Southern California continues to produce significant revenues. The goal was to target physicians’ offices in the medical campus around the hospital and provide them a local laborato…
20% Medicare Co-Pay A Blow to Regional Labs
By Robert Michel | From the Volume X No. 12 – September 8, 2003 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Informed speculation indicates that private health insurers are likely to adopt some form of laboratory test co-payment if the proposed Medicare 20% lab test co-pay legislation becomes law. For hospital laboratory outreach programs, the resulting reduction of reimbursement an…
Beaumont Reference Labs Earns ISO-9000 for Outreach
By Robert Michel | From the Volume X No. 6 – May 5, 2003 Issue
MOTIVATED BY THE GOAL of improving all aspects of its laboratory outreach program, Beaumont Reference Laboratories (BRL) of Royal Oaks, Michigan recently earned its ISO-9000:2001 certification. “In the competitive market for lab testing, we wanted to raise the bar,” stated Joseph E. Skrisson, D…
LabCorp’s MacMahon Provides Insights About Lab Marketplace
By Robert Michel | From the Volume X No. 5 – April 14, 2003 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Pathologists will be particularly interested in what Thomas MacMahon has to say about the evolution of laboratory medicine. As Chairman, President, and CEO of Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, he has continuous access to some of the best strategic analysis about the…
“April 14, 2003 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume X No. 5 – April 14, 2003 Issue
Lab executives and pathologists concerned about closed panel HMOs should closely study a recent Supreme Court decision. On April 2, the court issued a ruling that supports a state’s right to enact “any willing provider” laws. Kentucky had passed two laws requiring health plans to accept all out…
Carolina Blood Bank, PSA, Carolinas Healthcare, Leapfrog Group, CMS
By Robert Michel | From the Volume X No. 3 – March 3, 2003 Issue
PATHOLOGY GROUP IN SALT LAKE CITY BECOMES PSA MEMBER UTAH IS THE NEWEST STATE to have a pathology group practice become part of Pathology Service Associates, LLC (PSA). Based in Salt Lake City, Utah Pathology Services, Inc. is the first PSA-affiliated pract…
Quest Finally Owns Unilab, New Market Cycle To Begin
By Robert Michel | From the Volume X No. 3 – March 3, 2003 Issue
PERSISTENCE FINALLY PAID OFF for Quest Diagnostics Incorporated. On February 26, it took ownership of Unilab Corporation, capping almost 11 months of effort. In completing this acquisition, Quest Diagnostics completes the two blood brothers’ acquisition sweep of m…
Quest Ready to Move on Unilab, Announces Its 2002 Earnings
By Robert Michel | From the Volume X No. 2 – February 10, 2003 Issue
PERSISTENCE IS ABOUT TO PAY OFF for Quest Diagnostics Incorporated. After ten months of effort, it expects to finalize its acquisition of Unilab Corporation within weeks. But the Unilab acquisition soon to close looks different than the acquisition that was original…
It’s a Feud in North Carolina! LabCorp Versus Spectrum
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IX No. 17 – December 9, 2002 Issue
OVER IN NORTH CAROLINA, one of those good, old-fashioned southern feuds is under way. Like the fabled feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys of years past, Spectrum Laboratory Network and Laboratory Corporation are in a full-fledged shoot-out over market share of…
ARUP & Mayo Respond To New Market Cycle
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IX No. 14 – October 7, 2002 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Since the beginning of 2002, several important events changed the competitive status quo among the nation’s leading providers of hospital send-out testing. As part of its ongoing assessment of this market segment, THE DARK REPORT provides strategic management insights from …
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