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Seattle Hospital Lab JVs Involve Quest & LabCorp
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…
“September 29, 2003 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
There was cautious optimism among lab industry leaders lobbying Congress to stop the proposed 20% co- payment for Part B laboratory testing services. It seems that, over the summer break, Iowa Senator Charles Grassley got a lesson in grass roots lobbying. At a number of town meetings, irate seniors s…
Needless Mastectomy Draws National Attention
CEO SUMMARY: This widely-reported case of misdiagnosis at an Allina hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota is a powerful reminder to pathology practices and clinical laboratories that breakdowns in medical quality will draw increasing attention and scrutiny. Both the patient and the community ar…
Unilab Files Registration For IPO of $115 Million
CEO SUMMARY: During the 1990s, Unilab used the twin strategies of lab acquisitions and aggressive sales and marketing to fuel rapid growth in specimen volumes and net revenues. However, California’s ultra-competitive managed care market and severe financial problems during the latter ha…
New CEO Takes Charge At Pathology Partners
CEO SUMMARY: Pathology Partners, Inc. got a new President and CEO this month. The company is organized to build and operate independent regional histology and cytology laboratories in support of anatomic pathologists. Its business model is different than competing pathology companies and …
2000’s Movers & Shakers Represent Strong Leaders
CEO SUMMARY: Its time again for THE DARK REPORT to make its yearly selection of the lab industry’s Movers & Shakers. Individuals chosen for 2000 represent a cross section of laboratory companies. Their successes demonstrate that leadership and vision continue to make a difference, d…
AmeriPath Pursues Ambitious Strategy Of Rapid Expansion
CEO SUMMARY: As the pathology profession’s only publicly-traded physician practice management company, AmeriPath is the spear point of far-reaching changes now transforming pathology. With an annual revenue run rate of $270 million and an ample war chest of growth capital, AmeriPath int…
Winners and Losers in the Lab Industry
NOTHING WAS EASY FOR COMMERCIAL AND HOSPITAL LABS during the past decade. Reimbursement for lab tests was slashed. Onerous compliance requirements for Medicare increased costs and added to the legal risk of operating a laboratory. Patient access was restricted through exclusive HMO and managed care c…
“November 22, 1999 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
UroCor, Inc. of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is losing its long-time Chairman and CEO. Effective December 31, 1999, William A. Hagstrom will leave the company to pursue “new business start-up activities.” Hagstrom joined UroCor back in 1989, and helped it emerge from a Chapter 11 bank…
UroCor, Unilab, AmeriPath, MedPartners, Epitope
UROCOR INKS PACT TO MATCH DIAGNOSTICS WITH THERAPEUTICS HERE’S A PIONEERING EFFORT to more closely link diagnostics and therapeutics into a single product package. UroCor, Inc. and Mallinckrodt, Inc. signed an agreement that allows Mallinckrodt to sell an…
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