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COLA Summit to Address Lab Staffing Shortages
Key goals include a need to improve clinical laboratory recruitment and retention
CEO SUMMARY: An upcoming gathering of COLA’s Workforce Action Alliance will focus on three staffing challenges: improving data needed to understand the current clinical laboratory workforce; promoting career paths for new professionals in the field; and identifying ways ...
Global IVD Companies Issue Fourth Quarter 2024 Earnings
IVD Companies Grow Revenue in Q4 and 2024 Amid Changing Market Forces
OVERALL, IN VITRO DIAGNOSTICS (IVD) COMPANIES REPORTED A MIXED BAG of financial results for the quarter ending Dec. 31, 2024, with Becton, Dickinson and Company, Abbott Laboratories, and Siemens Healthineers showing the most momentum based on r...
Role of Price Transparency During Path Contract Talks
Savvy approaches to negotiate higher reimbursement from third parties
CEO SUMMARY: Pathology groups have a much better opportunity to turn the tables on payers and other third parties during contract negotiations if they come armed with the data and other information recommended by two well-respected pathology experts...
Trump Signs Executive Order on Price Transparency
New EO seeks to reinforce price transparency order signed during previous Trump presidency
ON FEBRUARY 25, PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SIGNED AN EXECUTIVE ORDER targeted at driving price transparency requirements for hospitals and insurers. The order aims to strictly enforce a previous rule, signed during his first term, intended to provide patients with cl...
White House Is Off to a Fast Start, So Pay Attention
We already see the second term of President Donald Trump influencing clinical laboratory business operations. It’s not ...
Don’t Be at the Mercy of the Tumultuous Healthcare Revolution
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Volume XXXII, No. 5 – March 31, 2025
In the fourth and final article in the series, The Dark Report discusses ways to use price transparency during pathology contract talks. Also, global IVD companies issue their fourth quarter earnings reports showing a mixed bag of results.
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