How Stanford Tackles the Lab Labor Shortage

By Janette Wider | From the Volume XXXII, No. 16 – November 17, 2025 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Clinical labs nationwide face worsening staffing shortages across all roles. Stanford Health Care’s Jennifer Fralick outlines strategies to retain talent and improve efficiency, such as career ladders and top-of-skills staffing. By aligning tasks with skill …

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Deal Offers Signals about the Future of Digital Pathology

By Janette Wider | From the Volume XXXII, No. 13 – September 15, 2025 Issue

THE DIGITAL PATHOLOGY MARKET IS AT AN INFLECTION POINT, AND TEMPUS’ RECENT $81.25 MILLION ACQUISITION OF PAIGE underscores both the challenges and opportunities ahead. While the pandemic temporarily accelerated digital pathology adoption, with vendors raising large su…

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Lab Stakeholders Discuss PAMA Reform

By Stephen Beale | From the Volume XXXII, No. 10 – July 14, 2025 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Medical labs need to brace for more action to counter pending test reimbursement rate cuts under PAMA. Although labs have received PAMA reprieves from Congress over the last few years, laboratory associations argue that Congress needs to vote on long-term reforms rather than …

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Immigration Enforcement Considerations for Labs

By Mark Terry | From the Volume XXXII, No. 10 – July 14, 2025 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: ICE audits and immigration sweeps are on the rise and garnering plenty of public attention. There has also been a significant increase in the US government’s budget for immigration and border enforcement. With that in mind, compliance with Form I-9 regul…

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Using Sophisticated Schemes, Fraudsters Hit the Next Level

By Jillia Schlingman | From the Volume XXXII, No. 10 – July 14, 2025 Issue

Investigators and fraudsters appear to be upping their game as the government seeks to punish those filing unscrupulous Medicare claims. These aspects were clear in the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) announcement last month of the largest healthcare fraud takedown reportedly in US history. Cli…

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How Medicaid Cuts May Affect Clinical Labs

By Mark Terry | From the Volume XXXII, No. 9 – June 23, 2025 Issue

CEO Summary: As lawmakers debate the merits of President Donald Trump’s budget bill, it appears that Medicaid changes are on the horizon. For medical laboratories, three immediate areas to monitor include potentially decreased Medicaid recipients, federal cuts to Medicai…

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COLA Summit to Address Lab Staffing Shortages

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 5 – March 31, 2025 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: An upcoming gathering of COLA’s Workforce Action Alliance will focus on three staffing challenges: improving data needed to understand the current clinical laboratory workforce; promoting career paths for new professionals in the field; and identifying ways …

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Quest Acquires ‘Select Assets’ of Fresenius Medical Care

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 4 – March 10, 2025 Issue

FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AND QUEST DIAGNOSTICS AGREED TO A DEAL in which Quest will provide laboratory testing services for the latter’s dialysis clinics in the United States. Separately, Quest Diagnostics will acquire “select assets” of Spectra Labora…

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January 27, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 2 – January 27, 2025 Issue

On Jan. 16, 2025, Paul Mango died at the age of 65. With his passing, the profession of laboratory medicine lost an ally and a friend. In the mid-1990s, while at the Institute for Transfusion Medicine in Pittsburgh, Mango convinced the CEOs of 40 hospitals to collaborate and create t…

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Insights from Q3 2024 Earnings Calls Point to a More Robust Lab Market

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI No. 15 – November 4, 2024 Issue

FOR THE THIRD QUARTER OF 2024 (Q3 2024), both of the nation’s largest publicly traded laboratories—Labcorp…

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