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A Tale of Two Laboratories
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XVII No. 4 – March 21, 2011 Issue
ON OPPOSITE COASTS OF THE UNITED STATES, two of the nation’s larger laboratory companies are charting very different courses. Yet, in this tale of two laboratories, each lab company has important lessons to teach hospital CEOs about the many benefits that accrue from a well-run hospital laboratory …
Using Performance-Based Part A Hospital Path Contracts
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 9 – June 21, 2010 Issue
CEO Summary: One of pathology’s greatest challenges is adequate reimbursement for hospital Part A Pathology Services. Over the past two decades, ever more hospitals took steps to reduce or eliminate payment to pathologists for these services. Now several innovative pathology gr…
Pace of Lab Acquisitions Increased during 2009
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 3 – February 15, 2010 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: After two years of relatively slow sales of clinical labs, there is pent up demand for lab acquisitions and a declining supply of independent labs available for sale. That’s the assessment of one expert on laboratory mergers and acquisitions, who predicts that the accelerat…
2009’s Top Ten Lab Stories Reflect Some Good, Bad
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVI No. 17 – December 14, 2009 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: As the closing year of the first decade of the new century and the new millennium, 2009 brought neither disruption nor upheaval to the majority of laboratories in the United States. Rather, it was marked by at least two themes. One was how public disclosure of problems with l…
Catholic Health Initiatives Signs Pact with PAML
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XVI No. 15 – November 02, 2009 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In concept, it is a simple deal. Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI), the nation’s second largest Catholic health system, is taking a 25% equity position in Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories (PAML). However, the consequences may be significant. PAML now has a…
Health Info Exchange (HIE) Helps South Bend Lab
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVI No. 15 – November 02, 2009 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Across the country, there are many efforts to create Regional Health Information Exchanges (HIEs). This has the potential to change the way laboratories connect electronically with referring physicians. This is true in South Bend, Indiana, where the Michiana Health I…
All-Star Vitamin D Panel Looks at Lab Challenges
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVI No. 10 – July 20, 2009 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Need proof that the issues surrounding today’s Vitamin 25(OH) D are of keen interest to laboratory professionals? Not only did the EXECUTIVE WAR COLLEGE’S in depth sessions on Vitamin D draw a large audience and enthusiastic participation by attendees, but within…
LabCorp And Quest Report 3rd Quarter Financial Performance
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 15 – November 10, 2008 Issue
CEO Summary: In third quarter earnings reports, both national lab companies posted modest gains in specimen volume, revenue, and net profit. More telling is the relative quiet in the current market for lab testing services. With no obvious opportunities to fuel double-digit rates of growt…
March 24, 2008 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 4 – March 24, 2008 Issue
Things are happening under new ownership and management at DCL Medical Laboratories LLC., based in Indianapolis, Indiana. DCL announced a strategic partnership with Third Wave Technologies Inc., a molecular diagnostics company in Madison, Wisconsin. In the partnershi…
Hospitals Saw Several Benefits In Forming Laboratory Joint Venture
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 3 – March 3, 2008 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: For the past eight years, growing numbers of hospitals and health systems have launched laboratory outreach programs. Hospital CEOs are recognizing that laboratory outreach programs generate worthwhile operational gains, along with steadily-increasing revenues. However, labor…
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