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Evolution in Pap Marketplace Shows Impact of New Guidelines
NEW GUIDELINES for cervical cancer screening issued last year are fueling strong growth in the sales of Digene Corporation’s HPV test. For its fiscal second quarter that ended on December 31, 2004, Digene reported sales of $27.0 million. That’s a 28% increase from Digene’s sal…
TriPath Imaging and Ventana Sign Major Development Pact
IF THE NEW BUSINESS AGREEMENT between Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. and TriPath Imaging, Inc. is successful, then the anatomic pathology laboratory may have a very different look in future years. Last week, Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. announced a …
Health Line Clinical Labs, ChromaVision, Cytyc, TriPath, Quest Diagnostics
HEALTH LINE CLINICAL LABS SIGNS $10 MILLION FRAUD SETTLEMENT WITH FEDS DESPITE THE EVIDENCE that packing unnecessary tests into test panels is not acceptable to Medicare and Medicaid authorities, some laboratories continue the practice. Health Line Clinical Laboratories, Inc…
HPV Test Volume Grows With Payer Acceptance
CEO SUMMARY: Because cervical cancer screening involves more than 55 million Pap tests per year in the United States, it is a high-profile segment of the lab testing industry. HPV testing is making steady inroads into the cervical cancer screening process. Digene Corporation is the direct…
“June 16, 2003 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Not all segments of the laboratory testing industry are pushing intensely to oppose an expected attempt to reintroduce legislation restoring the 20% patient co-payment for Medicare Part B lab testing services. (See …
Bio-Reference Labs, Quest Diagnostics, TriPath Imaging, Specialty Labs, SARS
BIO-REFERENCE LABS POSTS 20% INCREASE IN ANNUAL NET REVENUE LAST YEAR’S FRENZY of laboratory acquisitions left Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc. of Elmwood Park, New Jersey as the nation’s third-largest public laboratory company focused primarily on physicians’ office t…
Carolina Blood Bank, PSA, Carolinas Healthcare, Leapfrog Group, CMS
PATHOLOGY GROUP IN SALT LAKE CITY BECOMES PSA MEMBER UTAH IS THE NEWEST STATE to have a pathology group practice become part of Pathology Service Associates, LLC (PSA). Based in Salt Lake City, Utah Pathology Services, Inc. is the first PSA-affiliated pract…
Liquid Prep Testing Market Causing Much Aggravation
SEVERAL RECENT ISSUES of THE DARK REPORT addressed issues that resonated with our clients and regular readers. The mailbag has been plenty full of late. These responses are interesting in their own right. Among those with a point to make is Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings…
Jamaica Med Techs, Kaiser Permanente, Cytyc, Myriad Genetics, Bayer, CLMA
MEDICAL TECHNOLOGISTS IN JAMAICA STAGE WALK-OUT IN JANUARY LABORATORY TECHS ARE NOT KNOWN to be a radical component of the labor movement. But that doesn’t seem to be the case in Jamaica, where more than 80 of that country’s medical technologists walked off their jobs twice in January in…
“August 5, 2002 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Malpractice insurance has become a major concern in a growing number of states. Carriers are withdrawing from some markets and premium increases are significant. Pathologists in Florida tell THE DARK REPORT that they are awaiting quotes for next year, but that insurance brokers have told them to expe…
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