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Once Again, Congress Acts to Defer Medicare Lab Fee Cuts
LAST MONTH, CONGRESS ONCE AGAIN DEFERRED MEDICARE REIMBURSEMENT CUTS OF UP TO 15% f…
Allina Doctors Express Concerns after Quest Acquires Lab Outreach
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!
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!
For any lab that depends on revenue from its histology labo…
Identifying Current Lab Trends from Labcorp & Quest Experience
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
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…
Quest Diagnostics Moves to Acquire LifeLabs of Canada
QUEST DIAGNOSTICS, ALREADY A CLINICAL LABORATORY BEHEMOTH IN THE U.S., is expanding its Nor…
July 22, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Some hospitals failing to comply with the federal price transparency regulation have been fined. The website of CMS.gov lists 15 hospitals and the amount each was fined. On June 6, 2022, the first fines were levied against Northside Hospital of Atlanta ($883,130) and Northsid…
New Type of Competition from Investor-Owned Labs
CEO SUMMARY: More investor-funded lab companies see robust future growth in serving what The Washington Post calls “a booming online wellness market that aims to leave the doctor’s office behind. ” This is a new market driven by younger health care-minded consumers who turn to …
July 1, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Last week, it was announced that Quest Diagnostics “would acquire select laboratory assets from 12-hospital Allina Health” the Minneapolis-based health system. Quest stated, “Under the terms of the definitive agreemen…
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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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