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December 8, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
For the next 46 months, a Georgia fraudster will stay behind bars after pleading guilty to charges he violated the Anti-Kickback Statute by arranging for medically unnecessary genetic tests. A judge sentenced Patrick C. Moore, Jr. on Dec. 2. Moore was also ordered to pay $7.2 million in…
December 16, 2024, Intelligence Late-Breaking Lab News
Sonic Healthcare Ltd of Sydney, Australia, announced the acquisition of clinical laboratory company LADR (Laboratory Group Dr. Kramer & Colleagues) based in Geesthacht, Germany, on Dec. 9, 2024. The enterprise value of the deal is €423 million (US$446.9 million…
November 25, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
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 …
April 8, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
UnitedHealth Group stated that the cyberattack against Change Healthcare, a business unit of UnitedHealth’s Optum division, disrupted processing of approximately $14 billion in claims. The company discovered the cyberattack on Feb. 21 and said it d…
Labs Can Team with Employers to Improve Worker Productivity
HEALTHCARE’S ONGOING TRANSFORMATION AND THE EMPHASIS ON VALUE-BASED REIMBURSEMENT are creating a new opportunity for savvy clinical laboratory executives and pathologists. This opportunity is centered around the need of self-insured employers to address the problem of employee presenteeism….
How Northwell’s Lab Team Demonstrated Value Over 10 Years
CEO SUMMARY: Among hospital administrators, the popular wisdom is that their clinical lab is a cost center. This thinking leads them to consider drastic cost-management strategies that include partnering with commercial labs to manage in-hospital lab testing and the outright sale of lab o…
TriCore Forges Ahead to Help Payers Manage Population Health
CEO SUMMARY: To develop new sources of revenue to offset declining fee-for-service payments, TriCore Reference Labs is collaborating with health insurers in novel ways to improve patient outcomes and lower healthcare costs. To achieve this, TriCore brings together data from lab tests, EHR…
TriCore Finds Value-Based Healthcare a Profitable Endeavor
This is an excerpt from a 3,380-word article in the May 20, 2019 issue of THE DARK REPORT. The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: To develop new sources of revenue to offset declining …
Project Santa Fe Labs Deliver Value with Tests
CEO SUMMARY: No bigger threat looms over the financial security of the nation’s clinical laboratories than healthcare’s transition from fee-for-service payment to value-based reimbursement. To navigate that transition successfully, medical labs and pathology groups will need to adopt …
October 22, 2018 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
Efforts to enroll one million veterans in a program to determine how genetic variations affect health is moving swiftly. Current enrollment is 700,000 veterans and the one million goal is expected to be reached by 2021. In 2011, the federal Department of Veterans Affairs instituted …
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Volume XXXII, No. 18 – December 29, 2025
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