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Big Jump Predicted In Health Insurance Costs
CEO SUMMARY: Spiraling health costs are about to become a headline issue once again. There is widespread evidence that health insurers are seeking premium increases of 20% from the nation’s biggest employers. Aetna recently announced a second quarter 2001 operating loss of $95.9 million…
Strategic Business Failures Of The Laboratory Industry During the 1990s
If analysis is to be accurate and objective, it must recognize and praise successful accomplishments while at the same time recognizing and criticizing failures. Human nature being what it is, however, criticism of failed business decisions is painful and bound to generate denials by the parties invo…
California’s Physicians Face Financial Meltdown
CEO SUMMARY: It’s a what-if scenario that may come true. Healthcare providers in the Golden State are going broke at an astounding rate. Physicians seem to be the hardest hit, but signs indicate that hospitals are also heading toward serious financial difficulties. In a nutshell, a deca…
DARK REPORT Picks 1998’s Ten Biggest Lab Stories
CEO SUMMARY: Our story picks for 1998 demonstrate a broad range of subjects. Each affects laboratories and pathology practices in significant ways and should be used to trigger appropriate management strategies. Two essential themes among this year’s ten biggest lab stories: continued d…
Health Insurance Costs Begin New Upward Spiral
CEO SUMMARY: Health insurance costs are climbing again for the nation’s employers. Premium increases for 1999 average in excess of 10%. After losing money in 1997 and 1998, managed care companies are serving stiff premium increases to their customers. For clinical laboratories, the impa…
“September 28, 1998 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Just days ago, Bayer AG announced one of the largest drug-discovery alliances ever created. Bayer will pay Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $465 million. In return, over a six-year period, Millennium will use genomics techniques to identify cures for various diseases…
United Health’s Big Losses Derail Merger With Humana
CEO SUMMARY: Considered the darling of the managed care industry by investors, United Healthcare’s huge write-down makes it the latest healthcare behemoth to post an immense loss. Laboratory executives should see this as a sign that even big healthcare companies are struggling to develop fiscal sta…
Lab Industry Briefs
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Volume XXXII, No. 6 – April 21, 2025
Now that a federal judge has vacated the FDA’s LDT rule, The Dark Report analyzes the judgement and notes the various steps the FDA could take in response. Also, lab testing at pharmacies is proving to be less successful than was once anticipated.
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