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Much Disruption for Labs In 2016’s Top 10 Stories
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIII, No. 17 – December 19, 2016 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Within THE DARK REPORT’S list of the Top 10 Lab Industry Stories for 2016 is one story of disruption that might have been one story of disruption about to happen. The disintegration of Theranos during 2016 is the big story about a self-proclaimed disruptor of the lab indust…
November 28, 2016 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIII No. 16 – November 28, 2016 Issue
In recent weeks, two different lab transactions were announced. One involved a hospital laboratory management contract and the other was a potential merger of two anatomic pathology lab companies. The first announcement came on October 31, when Lovelace Health System of Albuquerque, …
BeaconLBS is coming to Texas
By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXIII No. 14 – October 17, 2016 Issue
This is an excerpt from a 1,200-word article in the October 17 issue of THE DARK REPORT. The complete article is available for a limited time to all readers, and available at all times to paid members of the Dark Intelligence Group. …
Can Clinical Laboratories Adjust To ‘New’ Healthcare System?
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIII No. 14 – October 17, 2016 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Month by month, there is increased clarity in the path the American healthcare system will follow as hospitals, health systems, and physicians integrate clinical care, manage populations, and practice personalized and precision medicine. While these changes play out, clinical…
UnitedHealthcare to Bring BeaconLBS to Texas
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIII No. 14 – October 17, 2016 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: With a quiet announcement this month that it was bringing its laboratory benefit management program to Texas on March 1, 2017, UnitedHealthcare is taking on a big challenge. Enrollment in UHC’s commercial plans in Texas is 4.3 million. That is twice the two million commerci…
Market Disruption Coming to Labs in Texas
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXIII No. 14 – October 17, 2016 Issue
IT WON’T BE WELCOME NEWS TO CLINICAL LABS AND PATHOLOGY GROUPS IN TEXAS that UnitedHealthcare will introduce its laboratory benefit management program in the Lone Star State. It will change the access many labs have to UHC patients and probably reduce the money these labs are paid if and when they …
Attorney Jane Pine Wood to Be Chief Legal Counsel at Bio-Reference
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIII No. 13 – September 26, 2016 Issue
One of the most widely-respected and trusted attorneys serving the clinical laboratory industry and anatomic pathology profession is leaving private practice to join the corporate world. …
Anatomic Pathology Profession Faces Challenges, Opportunities
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII No. 11 – August 15, 2016 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: For 10 years, three primary trends have reshaped the anatomic pathology profession. They are declining reimbursement, competition from physicians establishing in-office pathology labs, and a host of new government laws and regulations. More changes are coming, predicts one bu…
Of Theranos, ADLTs, and Surgical Pathology Errors
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXIII No. 10 – July 25, 2016 Issue
THESE DAYS, IT SURE FEELS LIKE CLINICAL LABS AND PATHOLOGY GROUPS are under constant siege. Every month seems to bring one or more new developments that rock the clinical lab industry. Thera…
McKesson, Change Healthcare Decide to Create New Company
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII No. 9 – July 5, 2016 Issue
ACROSS THE NATION, the hundreds of pathology groups and clinical labs that use McKesson Technology Solutions for their billing and collections, along with labs that use the Advanced Diagnostics Solutions group, should pay attention to a major corporate deal announced…
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