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New Pathology PPM Hits Competitive Marketplace
CEO SUMMARY: Nashville hatched another pathology-based physician practice management firm. This newest competitor was capitalized by pathologists. Its arrival in the competitive marketplace signals further changes to the traditional practice of pathology. Increasingly, it will be business…
To Protect Pathology Profits: Understand Managed Care
CEO SUMMARY: On November 8, 1997, THE DARK REPORT convened a private symposium restricted only to pathologists. The sole purpose of this event was to identify how pathologists could preserve and enhance their income. Within the confidential setting of a plush resort in Scottsdale, Arizona…
Pathology As A Business: Experts Highlight Issues
CEO SUMMARY: A select group of business-minded pathologists broke new ground last week in Scottsdale, Arizona. Candid discussion about the profession’s most sensitive issues provoked a variety of strategies. Among the topics were declining reimbursement, arbitrary contract pricing for A…
Pathology PPM Attempts Public Offering Of Shares
CEO SUMMARY: AmeriPath’s efforts to become a public company make it the most visible management experiment in the pathology world today. Already considered controversial by many pathologists, should AmeriPath successfully pull off its proposed initial public stock offering, it will assu…
Tennessee Lab Network To Become Operational
CEO SUMMARY: Although news of regional laboratory networks disappeared from the pages of lab industry publications, the movement is far from dead. In Tennessee, 13 hospital laboratories are about to launch the Middle Tennessee Healthcare Network. Organizers believe they have solutions to …
Innovative Approach Promises Integration of Clinical Lab Data
CEO SUMMARY: Any laboratory executive with several years in the business has confronted the limitations of laboratory information system (LIS) software. For a variety of reasons, LIS software seldom delivers the full range of benefits and cost-effectiveness sought by laboratories. But in …
Quest Diagnostics, Sonora Join Phoenix Operations
CEO SUMMARY: When Quest Diagnostics Incorporated and Sonora Laboratory Sciences announced their joint venture, it confirmed that Quest Diagnostics is the first of the national laboratories to begin serious restructuring of its national network of regional laboratories. Such restructuring …
Joint Venture In Phoenix To Be Copied Elsewhere
CEO SUMMARY: Look for the Quest-Sonora joint venture to be followed by others in coming months. Competition and marketplace realities are forcing the three national laboratories to respond with groundbreaking strategies. Hospital laboratory partners in these deals can reap significant ben…
3 Blood Brothers Differ On Surcharge Strategies
CEO SUMMARY: United we stand, divided we fall. On the issue of laboratory test surcharge repeal in New York, the three national labs took independent positions. Was the clinical industry served by this lack of unanimity? More importantly, do the actions of two of these national laboratori…
Physician Management Companies Exploding, Will Transform Healthcare
CEO SUMMARY: Consolidation and integration of healthcare services will be the dominant trend during the next five years. It happened to commercial laboratories from 1985-95. Widespread hospital consolidation began around 1990 and continues today. Now consolidation is coming to physicians….
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