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Using Performance-Based Part A Hospital Path Contracts
CEO Summary: One of pathology’s greatest challenges is adequate reimbursement for hospital Part A Pathology Services. Over the past two decades, ever more hospitals took steps to reduce or eliminate payment to pathologists for these services. Now several innovative pathology gr…
EMR Donations, Client Bill Issues in Anatomic Path
CEO SUMMARY: In today’s market for anatomic pathology services, local pathology practices are facing tough competition from national pathology companies that are quite aggressive at using EHR donations and discounted client bill arrangements to win new clients. Attorney Jane Pi…
Errors in Surgical Pathology Surface in the United Kingdom
ERRORS IN SURGICAL PATHOLOGY DIAGNOSES made the newspapers in the United Kingdom earlier this month. The accuracy of histopathology results at the Bristol Royal Infirmary (BRI) in Bristol, England was the subject of a news story in The Sunday Telegraph on April 10. Under the headlin…
Baylor Pathologists Form Lab with US Oncology
CEO SUMMARY: In Dallas, Pathologists Bio-Medical Laboratories is part of a new laboratory partnership that includes Baylor Health Care System, Texas Oncology, and US Oncology. The four partners ponied up a total of $40 million in cash and debt to build a state-of-the art laboratory in a 1…
Pathology Errors in Canada Make National News Once Again
YET ONE MORE TIME, pathology errors are making national headlines in Canada. News of errors by a surgeon and a pathologist in a Windsor, Ontario, hospital caught provincial health officials off balance. The simple story is that an experienced surgeon at 305-bed Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital …
Pace of Lab Acquisitions Increased during 2009
CEO SUMMARY: After two years of relatively slow sales of clinical labs, there is pent up demand for lab acquisitions and a declining supply of independent labs available for sale. That’s the assessment of one expert on laboratory mergers and acquisitions, who predicts that the accelerat…
Ireland Is Restructuring National Lab Test System
CEO SUMMARY: Working from a consultant’s report and recommendations based on studies dating back to 2006 and 2007, Ireland’s Health Service Executive is moving forward to effect a comprehensive reconfiguration of clinical laboratory testing across the nation. This ma…
Laboratory Merger & Acquisitions Saw Several Deals during 2009
CONSOLIDATION OF INDEPENDENT CLINICAL LABORATORIES continued during 2009. The most active acquirer was Sonic Healthcare, Ltd., of Sydney, Australia. It purchased three laboratories in the United States this year. Just this month, Sonic acquired East Side Clinical Laboratory …
DC Area Labs Busy Hiring Subspecialist Pathologists
CEO SUMMARY: When a mass exodus of at least 15 civilian subspecialist pathologists left the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) to join the newly-formed American International Pathology Laboratories (AIPL) in September, it triggered a number of consequences for both labs, …
September 21, 2009 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
In Dover, Delaware, entrepreneur pathologist Ray Sukumar, M.D., earned a unique distinction. Earlier this summer, Sukumar was granted a patent for his unique design of a compact histopathology laboratory in a standard delivery van. That accomplishment earned recognition by the Delaware Econom…
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