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How Northwell’s Lab Team Demonstrated Value Over 10 Years
By Joseph Burns
CEO SUMMARY: Among hospital administrators, the popular wisdom is that their clinical lab is a cost center. This thinking leads them to consider drastic cost-management strategies that include partnering with commercial labs to manage in-hospital lab testing and the outright sale of lab o…
LIS-EHR Fees Increasing, Say Hospital Lab Execs
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXVI No. 4 – March 18, 2019 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Hospital and health system lab managers say some vendors of electronic health record systems for independent physicians are aggressively raising the fees they charge labs. Labs serving outreach physicians now pay more in two ways, they say. First, they pay the price the vendo…
Useful Lessons for Labs That Report PAMA Data
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXVI No. 2 – February 4, 2019 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Will clinical labs heed the lessons learned from the first PAMA private payer market price reporting cycle that CMS conducted in 2017? One major difference is that the definition of applicable laboratories now includes most hospital labs. This creates the opportunity for a la…
Several Big Surprises in 2018’s Top 10 Lab Stories
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXV No. 18 – December 24, 2018 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: This year’s list of the Top 10 Lab Industry Stories for 2018 is dominated by new directives from Medicare and private health insurers, as well as significant decisions by federal courts. Collectively, these developments create new compliance risks for all clinical laborator…
2019 Outlook: Lab Industry Future Looks Dire, From Reactions to Recent Medicare Fraud Cases to PAMA Reporting and Other Stress Factors
By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXV No. 18 – December 24, 2018 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: This year’s list of the Top 10 Lab Industry Stories for 2018 is dominated by new directives from Medicare and private health insurers, as well as significant decisions by federal courts. Collectively, these developments create new compliance risks for all clinical laborator…
Biggest Lab Firms Diverge on Hospital Lab Strategies
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXV No. 13 – September 10, 2018 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Almost half of the nation’s hospitals and health systems are rethinking how to use their clinical labs to support clinical and financial strategies. Options range from outright sale of their lab outreach businesses to lab management agreements or joint ventures with one of …
Is the Joint Venture Hospital Lab an Emerging Trend?
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXV No. 12 – August 20, 2018 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: THE DARK REPORT has uncovered a previously unnoticed trend that turns common wisdom on Wall Street upside down: Hospitals and health systems may be taking back control of their their …
Sonic Sees a Future in Lab JVs with Hospitals
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXV No. 12 – August 20, 2018 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In every partnership, each member has a unique point of view. Following the announcement of a new laboratory joint venture company involving ProMedica Health System and Sonic Healthcare USA, the Sonic executive who worked with ProMedica’s administrators to develop the JV ex…
Do Hospitals Want to Sell or Outsource Their Labs?
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXV No. 12 – August 20, 2018 Issue
This is an excerpt from a 883-word article in the August 20, 2018 issue of THE DARK REPORT. The complete article and two related articles are available to all readers, with a three-article cap. CEO SUMMARY: Common wisdom on Wall Street is that many hospi…
ProMedica, Sonic Form Lab Outreach Joint Venture
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXV No. 12 – August 20, 2018 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Fast-growing ProMedica Health System of Toledo, Ohio, agreed to a laboratory joint venture with Sonic Healthcare USA. As lab budgets and prices for lab tests are squeezed downward, ProMedica sees opportunity to add volume to this new core lab facility to improve efficiency an…
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