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McKesson on HBOC, PAML, Medicare Coding, Abbott Laboratories
SCANDAL AT HBO & CO. TAINTS MCKESSON HBOC FIVE EXECUTIVES WERE SACKED by McKesson HBOC Inc.’s Board of Directors last month in response to allegations of financial improprieties. All five were employed by HBOC prior to its acquisition by McKesson last year. The termin…
“July 19, 1999 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
One of dermatopathology’s academic giants has been snared by a pathology PPM. A. Bernard Ackerman, M.D., will leave his professor post at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia to work with AmeriPath, Inc. and help it develop a dermatopathology center in New Yor…
Washington’s PacLab Network Succeeds With Standardization
PART TWO OF TWO PARTS CEO SUMMARY: In part one of this two-part series, we looked at how changes to healthcare in the state of Washington brought about the creation of PacLab Network Laboratories. In this concluding installment, we explore how PacLab is standardizing lab…
Washington State’s PacLab Network Is A Regional Winner
CEO SUMMARY: As a regional laboratory network, PacLab is unusual in one respect: participating hospital laboratories did not meet endlessly to talk about what they should do. Instead, action was the operative word for these network organizers. Since becoming operational in 1996, their bia…
“October 19, 1998 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Specialty Laboratories continues to make inroads as a national reference laboratory. Amerinet selected Specialty as a clinical laboratory service provider. It joins LabCorp and Quest on Amerinet’s laboratory provider panel. Special…
Hospital Lab-Commercial Lab Partnering Is Upcoming Trend
CEO SUMMARY: At this year’s Executive War College in New Orleans, laboratory innovators convened to study hot new trends in the industry.They were surprised to learn that partnering relationships between hospital laboratories and commercial laboratories are finally gaining wider accepta…
AmeriPath, SmithKline, Unilab, IMPATH, LabOne, Prudential/SBCL
AMERIPATH REPORTS EARNINGS, NEW PURCHASE AmeriPath, Inc. of Riviera Beach, Florida announced its 1997 financial performance. For the year, company revenues totaled $108.4 million. On February 17, the company also disclosed the acquisition of Anatomic Pathology Associates (A…
New Pathology PPM Hits Competitive Marketplace
CEO SUMMARY: Nashville hatched another pathology-based physician practice management firm. This newest competitor was capitalized by pathologists. Its arrival in the competitive marketplace signals further changes to the traditional practice of pathology. Increasingly, it will be business…
Regional Lab Systems Beginning To Emerge
CEO SUMMARY: Regionalization of laboratory services is about to become a dominant industry trend. Four groups of players will drive this process and each needs to recruit hospital laboratories to participate in their regional model. This is the first generation of attempts to create finan…
New Hybrid Lab Systems Provide Peek At Future
CEO SUMMARY: As the first generation of regional laboratory systems begin operation, the marketplace is about to separate winners from losers. Stakes are high for hospital laboratory administrators. If they choose to affiliate with the wrong model, the consequences can cause extended disr…
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