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Lab Acquisitions: LabCorp, Quest, Sonic Do Hospital Lab Deals
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXIV No. 4 – March 13, 2017 Issue
This is an excerpt from a 1,021-word article in the March 13, 2017, 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: …
Value-Based Care Is One Goal Of WHCN-Sonic Lab JV
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIV No. 4 – March 13, 2017 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Announced last month, the new laboratory joint-venture partnership with Sonic Healthcare’s Sunrise Clinical Laboratories will allow WCHN to compete with other health systems and prepare to respond to health insurers’ requests that hospital systems offer lower rates in val…
Sale to LabCorp to End Most of PAML’s Lab JVs
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIV No. 4 – March 13, 2017 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: It will take several years to understand how the market for lab testing services will change in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest, once Laboratory Corporation of America becomes the owner of PAML, based in Spokane, Wash. Price and financial terms of the sale were not disclose…
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…
PeaceHealth Outreach Laboratory Sells to Quest Diagnostics
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXIV No. 3 – February 21, 2017 Issue
This is an excerpt from a 1,471-word article in the February 21, 2017, 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…
PeaceHealth Labs Sold To Quest Diagnostics
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIV No. 3 – February 21, 2017 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In Oregon, one of the nation’s more successful and long-established health system outreach laboratories will cease to exist following its sale to Quest Diagnostics Incorporated. The seller explained that the Medicare Part B price cuts coming as a result of the PAMA market p…
PAMA Fee Cuts a Factor in Outreach Lab’s Sale
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXIV No. 3 – February 21, 2017 Issue
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, THE UNITED STATES IS ENVIED for the quality and ready access to medical laboratory tests that it delivers to physicians and their patients. Yes, there are criticisms that healt…
In Texas, BeaconLBS Start Will Be Delayed
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIV No. 2 – January 30, 2017 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: UnitedHealthcare will not implement the claims impact part of its laboratory benefit management program in Texas on March 1, 2017, as it had previously announced. Opposition to the program and the requirement that physicians use the BeaconLBS system when ordering about 79 lab…
Expense of Phlebotomy Leases Raise Cost of Care in Australia
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII, No. 17 – December 19, 2016 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In the United States, medical labs have long recognized that paying over-market rates to lease phlebotomy space in physicians’ officers is an inducement and a violation of federal anti-kickback laws. In Australia, a law in 2010 that removed the cap on what labs could pay to…
November 28, 2016 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIII No. 16 – November 28, 2016 Issue
In recent weeks, two different lab transactions were announced. One involved a hospital laboratory management contract and the other was a potential merger of two anatomic pathology lab companies. The first announcement came on October 31, when Lovelace Health System of Albuquerque, …
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