By Robert Michel, from the Volume VII No. 18 - December 25, 2000 issue
This section of the White Paper deals with the marketplace for laboratory services. For brevity and clarity, I will address five components: 1) independent commercial laboratories; 2) hospital-based laboratories; 3) esoteric, reference, and specialty testing laboratories; 4) anatomic pathology lab- oratories; and 5) diagnostics manufacturers and suppliers.
These groups represent the basic divisions within the competitive
By Robert Michel, from the Volume VII No. 3 - February 14, 2000 issue
CEO SUMMARY: Although the financial travails of the physician practice management (PPM) industry are widely known, there is little recognition that a number of single-specialty PPMs are doing well. This is true of pathology, where at least six pathology-based PPMs still remain in business. The best of them demonstrate strong revenue growth and good profits.
