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New Esoteric Lab Firm Does Two Acquisitions
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XI No. 6 – April 26, 2004 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Armed with $70 million, American Esoteric Laboratories (AEL) wants to build a national laboratory that offers a full menu of esoteric tests. It is building a primary laboratory in Dallas, which has one of the nation’s best air transport hubs. ThromboCare Laboratories and Vi…
Seattle Hospital Lab JVs Involve Quest & LabCorp
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XI No. 5 – April 5, 2004 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Joint ventures and collaborative business relationships between hospital laboratories and commercial laboratories continue to be a difficult business model. Recent events in Seattle demonstrate the challenges and frustrations of establishing such ventures, then making them su…
Who’s Buying Labs? Activity Shifts Down
By Robert Michel | From the Volume X No. 17 – December 22, 2003 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: As the number of independent clinical laboratories dwindles, most remaining owners seem content to continue building their business—at least until a buyer makes them an offer “they can’t refuse.” Acquisitions of pathology group practices were also few in number during…
West Hills Lab Outreach Still Thrives in California
By Robert Michel | From the Volume X No. 13 – September 29, 2003 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Now in its seventh year, the lab outreach program at West Hills Hospital and Medical Center in Southern California continues to produce significant revenues. The goal was to target physicians’ offices in the medical campus around the hospital and provide them a local laborato…
“January 7, 2002 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IX No. 1 – January 7, 2002 Issue
Here’s an early conjunction of: 1) consumer demand for sophisticated healthcare services; 2) healthcare ecommerce, and 3) telemedicine. In Cleveland and Boston, major health systems have introduced a Web-based “second opinions” service. In the case of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation…
Bill Bonello Sees Opportunities In Diagnostic Services Companies
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VII No. 14 – October 2, 2000 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: With the clinical laboratory industry now enjoying growing interest by professional investors, THE DARK REPORT traveled to New York City to meet with financial analyst William B. Bonello, of U S Bancorp Piper Jaffray. Bonello co-authored a just-released overview of what he ca…
Genesis Clinical Laboratory Hits Outreach Home Run
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VII No. 12 – August 21, 2000 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Commercial laboratory consolidation has left Chicago with only a handful of laboratory providers. New management at MacNeal Hospital’s for-profit laboratory division recognized this opportunity. During the past three years, the outreach program was revitalized and the sales…
“January 3, 2000 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VII No. 1 – January 3, 2000 Issue
Recent developments prove that the feds are serious about healthcare fraud and abuse! Sentencing was announced last month for the two Columbia/HCA hospital executives convicted last July 2 on charges of conspiring to defraud Medicare and other government healthcare programs. On Dece…
Revamped Houston JV Validates Industry Trend
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VI No. 14 – October 11, 1999 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Change is notoriously slow in both the hospital and the clinical laboratory industry. The announcement of a revamped laboratory joint venture between Houston’s Memorial Hermann Healthcare System and Dynacare demonstrates that market pressures continue to encourage the ratio…
West Hills Hospital Lab Hits Outreach Home Run
By Robert Michel | From the Volume VI No. 11 – August 9, 1999 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Popular wisdom says that California’s managed care market is a financial disaster for clinical laboratories. Yet here’s an exciting story about a community hospital that launched a brand-new laboratory outreach program in 1997 and found solid success. During the last two …
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