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New Trends Reshaping Healthcare, Lab Testing
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 4 – March 14, 2022 Issue
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Theranos Lost $585 Mil. in 2015, Had Revenue of Just $500,000
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 17 – December 20, 2021 Issue
AMONG THE BEST-KEPT SECRETS at Theranos during its glory days of 2013, 2014, and 2015—when the news media hailed now-disgraced founder and ex-CEO Elizabeth Holmes as a business genius to match Apple founder Steve Jobs—was the actual revenue the company was generating from its clinic…
New Lab, Pathology Trends at Executive War College 2021
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 15 – November 8, 2021 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Hundreds of lab leaders traveled to San Antonio last week for the 27th annual Executive War College on Laboratory and Pathology Management. After almost two years of virtual conference and meetings using Zoom, attendees were ready to gather for a live event, complete with speakers,…
India’s Neuberg Diagnostics Expands into U.S. Market
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 11 – August 16, 2021 Issue
“Our idea is to enhance the access and affordability for next-generation techniques, meaning molecular diagnostics, genomics, pathology, digital pathology, proteomics, metabolomics, and all that. This is the spirit behind Neuberg Diagnostics. —GSK Velu, PhD, BPharm …
UnitedHealth Rumored to Be Excluding Labs from Its Network
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXV No. 17 – December 3, 2018 Issue
IN RECENT DAYS, RUMORS HAVE SURFACED that UnitedHealthcare has begun to terminate the contracts it holds with a number of regional and non-national clinical laboratories. This news surfaced just as The Dark Report went to press. Given its importance to the clinical laboratory indust…
Cautious Optimism Seen At Dark Report’s Executive War College
By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXIV No. 7 – May 15, 2017 Issue
This is an excerpt from an 850-word article in the May 15, 2017, issue of THE DARK REPORT. The complete article is available for a limited time to all readers, and available at all times to paid members of the Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: There…
Will Medicare Lab Test Fee Cuts Happen in 2018?
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXIV No. 5 – April 3, 2017 Issue
CLINICAL LABORATORIES THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES ARE BRACING for what Medicare officials say will be fee cuts of $400 million in 2018 alone, followed by additional cuts that will total $5.4 billion over 10 years. Of great concern to community laboratories, small and rural hospitals, and physician …
PeaceHealth Outreach Laboratory Sells to Quest Diagnostics
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXIV No. 3 – February 21, 2017 Issue
This is an excerpt from a 1,471-word article in the February 21, 2017, issue of THE DARK REPORT. The complete article is available for a limited time to all readers, and available at all times to paid members of the Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY…
PeaceHealth Labs Sold To Quest Diagnostics
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIV No. 3 – February 21, 2017 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In Oregon, one of the nation’s more successful and long-established health system outreach laboratories will cease to exist following its sale to Quest Diagnostics Incorporated. The seller explained that the Medicare Part B price cuts coming as a result of the PAMA market p…
Newsmaker Interview: Matthew Hawkins
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII, No. 2 – February 8, 2016 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: By now, most pathologists and clinical laboratory administrators recognize that effective use of information technology will be a critical success factor as healthcare systems transform to do population health management and to use “big data” with value-based payment mode…
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