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What Comes Next? Predictions on COVID-19 Test Volumes in 2021-22
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 4 – March 22, 2021 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Incoming data show that the number of referrals for both COVID-19 tests and routine tests is in a decline that started in October and is continuing. This complicates the strategic planning for hospital/health system labs, independent labs, and pathology groups. They nee…
Franciscan Missionaries Sells Lab Outreach Business to LabCorp
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVII No. 13 – September 14, 2020 Issue
SINCE THE ONSET OF THE PANDEMIC IN LATE FEBRUARY, the nation’s two largest clinical lab companies have announced only two acquisitions of hospital laboratory outreach programs, one in June and one this month. Last week, LabCorp announced its acquisition of the clinical ambu…
Northwell and Memorial Health: A Tale of Two Labs
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXVII No. 3 – February 17, 2020 Issue
Something very unusual happened in this issue of The Dark Report. We analyzed the entirely opposite fates of two clinical laboratories owned by different healthcare systems. With apologies to author Charles Dickens and his opening sentence in his novel, a Tale of Two Cities, it c…
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