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November 25, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 16 – November 25, 2024 Issue
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
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXXI No. 15 – November 4, 2024 Issue
When you crack open this issue of The Dark Repor…
Insights from Q3 2024 Earnings Calls Point to a More Robust Lab Market
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI No. 15 – November 4, 2024 Issue
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
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI No. 15 – November 4, 2024 Issue
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…
Once Again, Congress Acts to Defer Medicare Lab Fee Cuts
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 14 – October 14, 2024 Issue
LAST MONTH, CONGRESS ONCE AGAIN DEFERRED MEDICARE REIMBURSEMENT CUTS OF UP TO 15% f…
Allina Doctors Express Concerns after Quest Acquires Lab Outreach
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 14 – October 14, 2024 Issue
IN RECENT YEARS, QUEST DIAGNOSTICS AND LABCORP, the two behemoths of the U.S. clinical laboratory market, have been aggressively acquiring lab businesses from health systems across the country. They say that patients and providers will benefit from lower costs and be…
Hospital Lab Outreach: Still a Valuable Asset!
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 13 – September 23, 2024 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Hospital lab administrators everywhere are watching press releases announcing the latest agreement of a major health system selling its laboratory outreach business to one of the billion-dollar lab corporations. The pace of these sales is accelerating. These deals confirm the…
Watch Out Pathologists! They’re Coming for Histology!
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXXI, No. 11 – August 12, 2024 Issue
For any lab that depends on revenue from its histology labo…
Identifying Current Lab Trends from Labcorp & Quest Experience
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 11 – August 12, 2024 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Many different factors influence the operations of clinical laboratories in the United States today. One good source of competitive business intelligence is for lab administrators to follow the quarterly earnings calls of the nation’s two biggest public lab corporations. Wi…
August 12, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 11 – August 12, 2024 Issue
In recent years, many of the national retail pharmacy chain operators announced big plans to open primary care clinics. Now, after substantial investments of billions of dollars, those same retail pharmacy chains are unwinding these business lines. This spring, Walmart announced it w…
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Volume XXXII, No. 10 – July 14, 2025
This issue is strong on different flavors of enforcement that clinical laboratories, whether they want to or not, will need to contend with. Lab stakeholders provide insights that medical labs need to brace for more action to counter pending test reimbursement rate cuts under PAMA. Also, this issue provides the legal and regulatory landscape for clinical labs’ use of AI and how it evolves with the technology. AI is creating legal uncertainty for clinical labs, especially around data privacy and FDA oversight of AI tools in diagnostics.
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