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Despite Tough Anatomic Pathology Market, Bostwick Opens New Laboratory
By Joseph Burns, from the Volume XXIII, No. 1 - January 19, 2016 issue
CEO SUMMARY: Once again, entrepreneur and pathologist David G. Bostwick, MD, is starting up a new lab company. Granger Diagnostics is now open and is located in North Chesterfield, Virginia. It is designed to be an anatomic, clinical, and molecular pathology reference laboratory. In an exclusive interview, Bostwick identified three substantial changes that have happened
New Company Ready to Heat Up Slow Digital Pathology Market
By Robert Michel, from the Volume XXII NO. 11 - August 3, 2015 issue
CEO SUMMARY: There's a new competitor in the digital pathology marketplace with ambitious plans to deliver a fully-integrated pathologist workflow solution. Inspirata, Inc., of Tampa, Florida, made its debut in March at an international pathology conference. In this exclusive interview, Inspirata Chairman and CEO Satish K. Sanan explains his company's strategic vision for digital pathology, along with the details of how Inspirata intends to overcome digital pathology's return-on-investment challenge.
Anatomic Pathology Business Faces Uncertain Future
By Robert Michel, from the Volume XXI NO. 4 – March 17, 2014 issue
CEO SUMMARY: There's a day of reckoning on the way for the traditional business model of the private pathology group practice. At most risk are smaller pathology groups that typically have five or fewer pathologists. Blame it on the reduced prices that Medicare and private insurers are paying for pathology services. Another factor is the
Labs, Path Groups Face Major Financial Issues
By Robert Michel, from the Volume XXI NO. 3 - February 24, 2014 issue
CEO SUMMARY: Are clinical labs and pathology groups ready for the end of fee-for-service reimbursement? That's just one important question that will be answered at the upcoming Executive War College on Lab and Pathology Management that will take place in New Orleans on April 29-30. The American healthcare system is undergoing unprecedented transformation and sessions
May 06, 2013 "Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News"
By Robert Michel, from the Volume XX No. 6 - May, 6, 2013 issue
Much is happening in the anatomic pathology market in the Pacific Northwest. PAML, LLC (Spokane, Washington), and CellNetix (Seattle, Washington) finally executed the agreement whereby PAML made an equity investment in CellNetix. Now, the two lab companies will collaborate on developing a reference and esoteric anatomic pathology testing service with national ambitions. Within days of
RDX Alters Business Plan Due to Lab Market Changes
By Joseph Burns, from the Volume XIX No. 17 - December 10, 2012 issue
CEO SUMMARY: Executives at Regional Diagnostic Laboratories (RDX) made a splash last May when they announced the new company's plans to acquire hospital laboratory outreach programs, backed by a capital commitment of $250 million. Now, in recognition of swift changes in the lab test marketplace, RDX has pulled back and will wait for a more
How Digital Pathology Helps Pathologists Deliver Added Value
By Robert Michel, from the Volume XVIII No. 12 - September 6, 2011 issue
"Pathologists have the opportunity to take on a new clinical role as the integrator
of all that digital pathology information, in combination with the patient's other clinical data collected from a wide variety of sources."
—Dirk G. Soenksen, M.S., M.B.A., Founder and CEO, Aperio
CEO Summary: During the 1990s, the pathology profession was exploring ways to use telepathology
AP Labs in Doc's Clinics Now an Established Fact
CEO SUMMARY: It started about eight years ago and shows no signs of slowing down. Specialist physicians, particularly urologists and gastroenterologists, have learned about the benefits of operating their own in-clinic anatomic pathology laboratories. One-by-one, these specialty practices are investing in this ancillary service. As they do, local pathology groups lose access to these tissue
Gauging the Prospects For Anatomic Pathology
By Robert Michel, from the Volume XVII - No. 16 - November 15, 2010 issue
CEO SUMMARY: More buyers are crowding into the lab testing industry and looking to acquire anatomic pathology testing companies. These buyers are willing to pay strong prices to acquire AP labs and companies which they determine to be a strategic fit. All of this acquisition activity is happening even as the Baby Boomer generation of
Sonic Makes Big Play In AP With CBL Path Buy
CEO SUMMARY: With the announcement that it will purchase CBL Path, Inc., Sonic Healthcare, Ltd., becomes the latest public laboratory company to buy a sizeable presence in the national anatomic pathology (AP) marketplace. For CBL Path, founded in 2003 by ex-Dianon executives and sales professionals, it is the exit strategy for which they have long
Volume XXVII No. 1 – January 6, 2020
Will clinical labs be excluded from the new proposed safe harbors under the Stark Act and the AKS? THE DARK REPORT analyzes the problem and also the warning that lies within CMS' plans for revisions to the anti-fraud laws. Also in this issue are key health system strategies and lab objectives from inside the highly successful switch to value-based medicine at one hospital lab, which was once considered a candidate for sale.
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