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Pathology Part A Comp Under Attack by Both Hospitals and Insurers
CEO SUMMARY: In steadily-growing numbers, hospitals and insurers are taking active steps to reduce or eliminate compensation for clinical pathology professional services, also commonly referred to as “Part A” services. Unfortunately, many pathology groups fail to anticipate this situati…
FNA Clinic Business Becomes Part of Unilab
CEO SUMMARY: Pathology has a new business model entering the marketplace. The goal of FNA Clinics of America, Inc. is to offer patients speedy access to the FNA procedure and provide referring physicians with a final diagnosis within hours of the FNA procedure. Unilab Corporation recogniz…
Provider Performance Ranking Now Hitting Healthcare System
CEO SUMMARY: When 96 big corporations, employing 28 million people and spending $52 billion on healthcare, begin publishing hospital performance measurements so their employees can make informed choices, that’s big news! THE DARK REPORT predicts this is a major step toward detailed meas…
Path Trends For 2002 Show Future Direction
CEO SUMMARY: Even as pressures to squeeze costs and consolidate within the pathology profession ease, a different set of market trends is exerting influence. Collectively, these trends portend the end of the small pathology group’s dominance of its local healthcare marketplace. It will …
Histology Lab Goes Mobile To Serve Customers On-Site
CEO SUMMARY: During the 1990s, pathologists at Palm Beach Pathology recognized that more and more procedures were being done in ambulatory surgery centers and physicians’ offices. To maintain access to these patients, Palm Beach Pathology developed a strategic marketing plan with a uniq…
2001’s Ten Big Stories Presage Future Direction
CEO SUMMARY: During 2001, few labs found themselves under intense pressure to change or react to dramatic events in the healthcare marketplace. Like 2000, this past year was marked by evolutionary progress, not revolutionary change. However, continuing signs indicate that consumers will p…
New Legal Trends Now Affecting Pathologists
CEO SUMMARY: During the past 36 months, quiet and significant changes have occurred to certain legal issues involving anatomic pathology services. The resulting new environment exposes pathology groups to different types of threats, particularly to their sources of income. This intelligen…
Anatomic Pathology May Be “Hot” Opportunity
EVERY NOW AND THEN, IT HELPS TO STAND BACK and look at the big picture. In this issue, you will read a unique…
DIANON Acquires UroCor And Boosts Urology Share
CEO SUMMARY: Following years of intense competition for the diagnostic testing business of office-based urologists, DIANON Systems and UroCor will now join forces. The recently-announced merger creates a powerhouse anatomic pathology company in the urology-based diagnostics services marke…
Analysis of Lab Testing Market Reveals Competitive Shifts
CEO SUMMARY: Even as public lab and anatomic pathology companies enjoy sustained growth in specimen volumes and revenues, fundamental shifts in the basic marketplace have changed the competitive environment. Surprisingly, the most open market segment is anatomic pathology specimens referr…
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