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New Lab Firm Life Cycle Demonstrated by Focus
CEO SUMMARY: When an investment group bought Focus Diagnostics, Inc. in 2000, its business objective was to increase the value of the business and sell it between year five and ten of its ownership. Thus, the announcement last Friday that Focus Diagnostics would be acquired by Quest Diagn…
Many Trends in AP Spell Lots of Change Ahead
CEO SUMMARY: Every second year, THE DARK REPORT releases its list of key trends in anatomic pathology. These trends help shape an understanding about the state of the pathology profession. Our current list includes 11 identifiable trends. This is not an auspicious sign for pathologists wh…
Picking Top Ten Stories Of 2005 for Lab Industry
CEO SUMMARY: THE DARK REPORT offers its pic…
Analysis of OIG’s Opinion Shows Compliance Shift
CEO SUMMARY: Attorney Richard Cooper believes the latest Advisory Opinion by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is consistent with its earlier anti-kickback law pronouncements about situations where a physician is in a position to profit from the patients he/she refers. Cooper also…
New Competitors Line Up In Oncology Marketplace
CEO SUMMARY: Local pathology groups are advised to more closely track developments in the national market for oncology testing. Not only is big money targeting cancer testing, but a number of nimble, entrepreneurial start-up companies have begun to compete for specimens. Genzyme’s acqui…
Anatomic Path Trends Portend Deep Changes
CEO SUMMARY: Our biannual review of trends shaping the anatomic pathology profession reveals that a wide range of influences are active. The nation’s healthcare system is undergoing fundamental changes in how it views the quality of health services and how it will favor top-performing p…
New England’s Path Lab Is Acquired by LabCorp
CEO SUMMARY: With growing regularity, owners of larger independent clinical laboratories are opting to sell to one of the public lab companies. This time it’s New Hampshire-based Path Lab, which agreed to be acquired by Laboratory Corporation of America. One intriguing aspect of…
Bigger Labs Have Always Coveted Hospital Testing
CEO SUMMARY: For almost two decades, the nation’s largest laboratory companies have, for all intents and purposes, been “locked out” of the market of hospital inpatient lab testing. Executives at commercial labs have long viewed hospital inpatient lab testing as an untapped market. …
“April 9, 2001 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
There’s another commercial laboratory working toward its ISO-9001 certification. CEO Roy Trucks of Doctors Laboratory, Inc. in Valdosta, Georgia reports that implementation of ISO-mandated procedures is going well. The goal is to pass the audit and receive the ISO-9001 certificate …
New Products for Lab Test Reporting
Editor’s Introduction: Although the movement to shift lab test results reporting to the Web is still in its earliest stages, a growing number of laboratories are actively preparing to offer this service to their physician-clients. In response to the demand for solutions to permit lab tes…
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Volume XXXI, No. 5 – April 8, 2024
The fragmentation of consumer markets is reflected in clinical lab services, and The Dark Report examines this trend and how it will impact labs in the coming years. Also, The Dark Report notes that the FDA has issued a controversial memo to reclassify many high-risk IVD assays.
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