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Lab “Home Brews” Web Solution for Test Results
CEO SUMMARY: Internet-enabled lab test ordering and results reporting may help independent commercial labs and hospital laboratory outreach programs become more competitive against the two blood brothers. In eastern Pennsylvania, Clinical Laboratories, Inc. introduced Web-based lab test r…
Beckman Coulter’s Strategy Reflects Consolidation Trends
CEO SUMMARY: Rapid changes to the clinical laboratory industry had equally profound impact upon the major diagnostic companies. At Beckman Coulter, Inc., market forces triggered a decade of acquisitions and internal consolidation.The company looks very different today than it did ten year…
Insurers Dropping Medicare HMO Programs in Various Regions
Several of the nation’s largest health insurance companies will cease offering Medicare HMOs in certain regions of the United States. Almost 800,000 of the nature’s seniors will be dropped from Medicare +Choice plans as Aetna/US Healthcare, Foundation Health Systems, Oxford Health System…
Express Scripts, InformInvestor.com, UroCor, Bio-Reference Laboratories
PRESCRIPTION DRUG SPENDING HITS A RECORD INCREASE OF 17.4% IN 1999 Just-released data from Express Scripts, Inc. indicates that spending on prescription drugs increased by a record 17.4% during 1999. This compares to a 9.6% spending increase for drugs in 1998. As most lab e…
“July 10, 2000 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
When it comes to laboratory information services, the Internet may indeed be a competitive leveler. THE DARK REPORT is tracking a host of small software companies that already have working solutions for Web-enabled lab test ordering and results reporting installed and operating in the field. It seems…
Investors Returning To Lab Industry
SOMETHING BIG IS HAPPENING to the clinical laboratory industry and the anatomic pathology profession. For the first time in six or seven years, the investment community is paying close attention to the laboratory industry. This should be a welcome development for commercial lab owners and anatomic …
Merger Creates “New” Pathology Competitor
CEO SUMMARY: Pathology business consolidation and regionalization continues. Pathology Consultants of America, Inc. (PCA) and PathSOURCE, Inc. announced their intention to merge last month. The combined company will be called Inform DX, Inc. and will compete nationally for anatomic pathol…
1-For-10 Reverse Stock Split Boosts LabCorp’s Share Price
MAY PROVED TO BE an auspicious time for Laboratory Corporation of America to restructure its equity base. In the process, it’s positioning itself to be a tougher competitor in the lab testing marketplace. Ever since the company was first created by the merger of Roche Biom…
Questions Remain About Performance Of Liquid-Prep Paps
CEO SUMMARY: During the past five years, several companies entered the lab marketplace with claims that their new Pap test technologies are improvements over conventional Pap smear methods. Armed with investment capital from Wall Street, these companies launched aggressive sales and marke…
ProxyMed, MedePass, Cigna, Aetna
FORMER SBCL PRESIDENT HAS QUICK TOUR AS CEO OF PROXYMED, INC. IT WAS A SHORT TOUR OF DUTY as Chief Executive Officer at ProxyMed, Inc. for John B. Okkerse, Jr., Ph.D. On May 19, after only six months as ProxyMed’s CEO, Dr. Okkerse stepped down as part of a cost-cutting mo…
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Volume XXXII, No. 13 – September 15, 2025
The Dark Report examines a new bill that would reform PAMA and avoid reimbursement rate cuts scheduled for January 2026. Clinical laboratory leaders are urged to make their voices heard in Congress. Also, an expert describes how labs can fix pre-analytical errors and avoid disaster.
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