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“January 20, 2003 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

December proved to be an eventful month for many companies in the lab industry. Here’s some key items of interest, many to be followed in more detail in coming issues of THE DARK REPORT: •AmeriPath, Inc. is to be sold to Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, a privat…

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Ken Freeman Discusses Plans to Integrate AML and Unilab

CEO SUMMARY: Once again, Ken Freeman and Quest Diagnostics Incorporated is altering the national market for clinical laboratory testing. By acquiring American Medical Laboratories and Unilab, the nation’s largest lab company is expanding its presence in California, Nevada, and Washingto…

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Healthcare Buyers Move to Change System

ON PAGES 9-14 OF THIS ISSUE, you will read our Editor’s cogent analysis of why healthcare buyers are taking active steps to measure the quality of services provided by hos…

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Converting Business Intelligence Into Lab Profits

AS THE NEW YEAR’S EVE CELEBRATION RINGS OUT THE YEAR 2000 and welcomes 2001, THE DARK REPORT will celebrate more than five years of service to the clinical laboratory industry and the pathology profession. It has certainly been an extraordinary five years for laboratories throughout the United Sta…

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Laboratory Regionalization Enters a New Phase

REGIONALIZATION OF LABORATORY SERVICES has been the primary theme behind all major changes to the clinical lab industry since the mid-1980s. There have been several phases, such as commercial lab consolidation, and hospital lab consolidation. But a constant factor underlying each of these phases has …

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Proposed Federal Budget Threatens Laboratories

BY NOW MOST OF YOU KNOW THAT PRESIDENT CLINTON’S FY01 BUDGET is not kind to the clinical laboratory industry. It seeks to restore the 20% copayment for lab services, cuts 30% out of the reimbursement for four tests, and institutes the Medicare competitive bidding concept for lab services. Over the…

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Opening Pandora’s Box

OUR EDITOR ONCE AGAIN HAS ANOTHER REMARKABLE PREDICTION for the clinical laboratory industry. In this issue, he predicts new point-of-care (POC) technology for routine chemistry and hematology testing will start the long- foretold process of laboratory decentralization. This follows on the heels of t…

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Pathologist Income Symposium, Healtheon, Biogenetics, Healthworks Alliance

PATHOLOGIST INCOME SYMPOSIUM DATES ARE NOVEMBER 12-13, 1999 SCOTTSDALE IS AGAIN SLATED TO HOST the upcoming private Pathologist Income Symposium, scheduled for November 12-13, 1999. This year’s symposium tackles the toughest of all topics: increasing the compensation paid by hosp…

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First-Ever National Gathering Of Lab Sales Managers

CEO SUMMARY: Here’s a news-making event for the clinical laboratory industry: a first-ever national meeting of the country’s best sales and marketing managers. Scheduled as a new addition to the EXECUTIVE WAR COLLEGE on May 11-13, it’s an unprecedented opportunity for the nation’s…

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Good Market Analysis Leads to Accurate Predictions

HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER WHEN, JUST A FEW YEARS AGO, it was MetPath/Corning Clinical Laboratories (CCL) which was on the financial ropes? At that time, SmithKline Beecham, PLC was expected to be the likely purchaser of CCL. The date was January 31, 1996. The Wall Street Journal…

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