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In the Past, Labs Used Courts to Thwart Feds
CEO SUMMARY: A federal judge’s recent decision to vacate the FDA’s final rule on laboratory developed tests harkens back to a 2008 case where clinical labs stopped a CMS competitive bidding project. In the earlier case, legal risks led the government to back down. The …
Quest Acquires ‘Select Assets’ of Fresenius Medical Care
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AND QUEST DIAGNOSTICS AGREED TO A DEAL in which Quest will provide laboratory testing services for the latter’s dialysis clinics in the United States. Separately, Quest Diagnostics will acquire “select assets” of Spectra Labora…
Quest Diagnostics, Labcorp Issue Q4 and Full Year 2024 Earnings
LAB ACQUISITIONS IN 2024 WERE A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR TO REVENUE GROWTH at the nation’s two biggest clinical laboratory companies. This was reflected in the fourth quarter and full year 2024 earnings reports issued by Labcorp and Quest Diagnostics. Here are recently …
February 17, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
To implement a corporate restructuring, Becton Dickinson (BD) announced on Feb. 5, 2025, that it would proceed to “separate BD’s Biosciences and Diagnostic Solutions business from the rest of BD.” The company plans to complete this action by the end of 2025. Clinical laboratori…
Review of Genetic Testing Companies During 2024
CEO SUMMARY: Investors in genetic testing companies are taking it on the chin these days. During 2024, a number of the nation’s largest firms providing genetic test services reported significant losses. Other genetic testing companies are dealing with class action lawsuits claiming that…
January 6, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
In response to the 2021 federal law requiring all medical test results to be released to a patient’s electronic medical record upon availability, a team of researchers at Michigan Medicine recently conducted a study to learn whether patients could understand the standard pathology …
November 25, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Disruption is happening in the consumer genetic testing marketplace. In recent weeks, news outlets in the United Kingdom reported that Atlas Biomed, a consumer genetic testing company founded in 2016, had simply “disappeared.” Malwarebytes said Atlas Biomed’s “London offices …
Getting Test Claims Paid & Class Action Lawsuits
When you crack open this issue of The Dark Repor…
Insights from Q3 2024 Earnings Calls Point to a More Robust Lab Market
FOR THE THIRD QUARTER OF 2024 (Q3 2024), both of the nation’s largest publicly traded laboratories—Labcorp…
November 4, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Artificial intelligence (AI) is coming to the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Veterans Administration (VA). Last week, on Oct. 30, the two agencies issued an announcement that they would partner “to launch an interagency testing ground forchealth…
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Volume XXXII, No. 6 – April 21, 2025
Now that a federal judge has vacated the FDA’s LDT rule, The Dark Report analyzes the judgement and notes the various steps the FDA could take in response. Also, lab testing at pharmacies is proving to be less successful than was once anticipated.
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