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No Slice of the Pie for Pathology and Laboratory
Managed care appears to be ready to minimize pathology in the same fashion as it minimized the clinical laboratory. Within the laboratory industry, it is widely recognized that most managed care plans reimburse laboratory services at levels which are inadequate to cover the full cost of testing. Now…
1997’s Top Ten Lab Stories Predict New Directions
CEO SUMMARY: Events during 1997 reveal that the laboratory industry continues to undergo fundamental change. Yet even amidst the industry’s downsizing, selected laboratory organizations continue to flourish. Here is THE DARK REPORT’s annual look at top stories for the year. A careful …
“State of Lab Industry” Reveals Radical Change
CEO SUMMARY: Pick your trend: declining reimbursement, consolidation, clinical integration, downsizing, and capitated reimbursement. These trends all continued to shape the way laboratories organized to provide services. But 1997’s wildcard was the federal government. Between investigat…
Quest Announces Major Restructuring for 1998
CEO SUMMARY: Recognizing the reality of laboratory over-capacity in the marketplace, Quest Diagnostics Incorporated intends to align its laboratory capacity with existing specimen volumes. In so doing, it’s taking a progressive step and moving more aggressively than its two national com…
Hitting Financial Bottom
During the last three years, financial news from the clinical laboratory industry has generally been bad. Two things attracted the media’s attention. Multi-million dollar Medicare fraud settlements involving laboratories got widespread notoriety. Financial losses at public laboratories attracted le…
Regional Growth Strategy Guides Presbyterian Labs Services
CEO SUMMARY: Here’s a consolidated laboratory organization serving six hospitals and an extensive outreach program. As described in the first installment of this two-p art series, Presbyterian Laboratory Services actively reshaped itself into a well-run asset for its parent healthcare s…
Market Upheavals Around The Corner
In reviewing the galley proofs for this issue of THE DARK REPORT, I am struck by the potential for significant market upheaval in two areas of laboratory medicine: pathology and the clinical laboratory marketplace of California. The stories about AmeriPath, Inc. and California labora…
National HMOs Having Trouble Digesting All Their Acquisitions
HARD TIMES for the clinical laboratory industry have lasted for at least three years. Now it appears that national HMOs may be in for an extended period of financial difficulty. Earnings reports from major HMO corporations disappointed Wall Street. Cigna, Aetna and PacificCa…
Nominations Now Open For Laboratory Innovators
CEO SUMMARY: Nominations are now open as THE DARK REPORT seeks to identify laboratory executives who deserve recognition. Our annual awards program honors the innovators and leaders within the clinical laboratory industry who push the boundaries of management change and show us how to bes…
LabCorp Hosts DARK REPORT For Burlington Site Visit
CEO SUMMARY: During the years of sustained bad financial news that dogged the major laboratories, there was a reluctance to speak publicly about any aspect of the laboratory business. That era seems to be ending, as LabCorp and the other national laboratories become friendlier and more ac…
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Volume XXXII, No. 14 – October 6, 2025
The Dark Report examines increasing healthcare costs for employers and how clinical labs can help those employers. Also, an in-depth case study shows how one hospital system regained its outreach program after originally ceding it to a national lab company, adding millions to the system’s bottom line.
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