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The Dark Report Special White Paper: Consumer-Directed Health Plans- December 26, 2005
  • R. Lewis Dark: Pathologists: Will CDHP-insured Patients Pay You?
  • Helping Labs Get Ahead Of the CDHP Tsunami
  • Newsmaker Interview: Paul Mango Consumer-Directed Health Plans To Be Healthcare's Next Wave
  • Consumer-Directed Health Plans To Be Healthcare's Next Wave: 13 Hot Topics
  • INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
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The Dark Report Decmber 5, 2005
  • R. Lewis Dark: Internet as Threat and Opportunity for Labs
  • Picking Top Ten Stories Of 2005 for Lab Industry
  • NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW: Middleware Provides Opportunity For Labs to Gain New Functions
  • INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
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The Dark Report November 14, 2005
  • R. Lewis Dark: Using Laboratory Informatics to Add Value
  • Spectrum Lab Network Is Sold to Equity Investor
  • Private Equity Firms: Ready to Buy More Labs?
  • Regulatory Update: Congressional Bill Introduced On Cytology Proficiency Testing
  • Lab Integration At Geisinger Contributes to Better Outcomes
  • Payers Begin Speeding Up Payment to Physicians
  • INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
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The Dark Report October 24, 2005
  • R. Lewis Dark: Mergers Create Health Insurance Oligopoly
  • Payer Consolidation: WellPoint Buys into NYC
  • OML Graduates First Distance-Learning MTs
  • Medi-Cal Abandons Lab Contract Scheme
  • NYC Collects Lab Results To Monitor Diabetics
  • Health Technology Update: Cervical Cancer Vaccine Trial Generates Huge Headlines
  • Canadian Lab Confab Reveals Useful Insights
  • INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
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The Dark Report October 03, 2005
  • R. Lewis Dark: Do Regional Laboratories Have A Bright Future?
  • Our Tenth Anniversary Serving Your Needs
  • AmeriPath Will Acquire Specialty Laboratories
  • Bio-Reference Labs Develops Regional & Niche Strategies
  • WSJ Slams Client Bill For Lab Test Services
  • INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
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The Dark Report September 12, 2005
  • R. Lewis Dark: A Tale of Two Hospitals
  • Houston Lab Fills Gap For Katrina Evacuees
  • Lab Suppliers Step Up In Katrina's Aftermath
  • Molecular IVD Rankings
  • Sonic Healthcare Buys Clinical Pathology Labst
  • Sonic HealthCare In US: How Will Market Change?
  • HCA Buys IRL From MDS, Makes Plans for Future
  • INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
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The Dark Report August 22, 2005
  • R. Lewis Dark: PCR Celebrates Its Twentieth Anniversary in 2005
  • Innovative AP Reports Created by Path Group
  • Quest Pays $934 Million In Acquisition of LabOne
  • Picking Winners and Losers For the Molecular Test Menu
  • Proteomic Tests Poised For Clinical Market
  • INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
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The Dark Report August 1, 2005
  • R. Lewis Dark: New Federal Anti-kickback Investigation
  • For Quest and LabCorp, The Story is"Molecular"
  • Lab Technology Update: Technology Can Now Enable"Card Swipe" for Draw Sites
  • Pinkus DermPath Earns ISO-9000 Certification
  • Part I - Molecular Diagnostics: How Beaumont Built A Successful Program
  • INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
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The Dark Report July 11, 2005
  • R. Lewis Dark: Using OIG Advisory Opinions to Level Playing Field
  • Nichols Diagnostics Stops Product Sales
  • New OIG Opinion 05-08 On Phlebotomy Fees
  • Michel Wins Investigative Reporting Award from Peers
  • Payer Consolidation: United Buys Pacificare
  • Consumer-Directed Healthcare by Mango
  • Techniques to Defend Against Patient ID Theft
  • Info Technology Update: Amazing New IT Products Arriving in Healthcare Market
  • INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
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The Dark Report June 20, 2005
  • R. Lewis Dark: Judicial Earthquake Shakes Canada's Health System
  • DOJ Sends Subpoenas To Quest & LabCorp
  • Crime In the Lab Industry: A Poor Track Record
  • Phlebotomists in California Undergoing Certification
  • Compliance Update: National HIPAA Conference Overlooks Patient ID Theft
  • Patient ABNs Can Save On Expensive Send-outs
  • Coding Update: Problems with ICD-9 Codes Contribute to Coder Shortage
  • Unique Solution to Control Reagents, Other Supplies
  • INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
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The Dark Report May 30, 2005
  • R. Lewis Dark: Laboratories Lead Healthcare on Quality Systems
  • Lab Innovators Point Way At Executive War College
  • Carilion Health Acquires Chi Lab Consultancy
  • Phlebotomists in California Undergoing Certification
  • For Molecular Tests, Evaluate All Factors
  • LIS Market Evolving To Serve New Needs
  • INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
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The Dark Report May 9, 2005
  • R. Lewis Dark: International Tempest in Lab Industry Teapot Threat
  • "Coming Out" Party In Atlanta for IQLM
  • JCAHO, NQF CEOs Speak to Lab's Future Role
  • Managed Care Update: Horizon and Caremark Rx Put $3 Mil into E-Prescribing
  • Ramifications From The"H2N2 Virus Affair"
  • Why Is There Crime In the Lab Industry?
  • INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
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The Dark Report April 18, 2005
  • R. Lewis Dark: R. Lewis Dark: More Crime, More Consolidation, and a New Threat
  • Ex-IMPATH Executives Face Criminal Charges
  • Saad & Adelson's Financial Scam Unravels When Bank Audits Collateral
  • LabCorp Buys Esoterix For $150 Million in Cash
  • NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW: ERIC DREW Victim of First-Ever HIPAA-Convicted Crime Tells Story & Offers Advice to Laboratories
  • Avoid Patient ID Theft in Your Lab With Proactive Steps
  • INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
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The Dark Report March 28, 2005
  • R. Lewis Dark: R. Lewis Dark: Is Your Lab at Risk from Patient Identity Theft?
  • Phlebotomist Convicted For Theft of Patient ID
  • Privacy Officer Shares Lessons on ID Theft
  • Phlebotomist Gibson Steals Patient's Identity
  • Managed Care Update: Medicare Managed Care Is Poised to Double in Size
  • OIG May Be Investigating AP Laboratory Condos
  • Labs in United Kingdom Pressured to Change
  • Dark Index: Year-end Financials Released For Quest, LabCorp & LabOne
  • INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
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The Dark Report March 7, 2005
  • R. Lewis Dark:"Lowest-Priced" Chickens Came Home to Roost
  • Florida Medicaid Gives Up On State-wide Lab Test Contract
  • Spectrum Lab Network Now Owns MEDex, Comments on Market Trends
  • Profit Squeeze Pressures Specialty Laboratories
  • Managed Care Update: Medicaid's Exploding Costs Threaten State Budgets
  • Four National Reference Labs Undergoing Changes
  • Baylor University Laboratories Serves ED Needs with STAT Lab
  • INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
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The Dark Report February 14, 2005
  • R. Lewis Dark: "Frankenstein the Tumor" is No More
  • Five Lab Acquisitions Over the Past Ten Weeks
  • Review of 2004 Lab Sales Identifies Buyer Interest
  • Barristers Offer Insights Into OIG Opinion 04-17
  • Doctor "Pay to Perform" Launched by Medicare
  • Cytology Diagnostics: Evolution in Pap Marketplace Shows Impact of New Guidelines
  • Lab Briefs: RFID, Georgetown University Hospital, HIV Screening Studies, MDS, Duke, HCA, Cigna
  • INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
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The Dark Report January 24, 2005
  • R. Lewis Dark: Hey! We Are Halfway Through the 2000's
  • Bi-Annual Look at Trends Reshaping Clinical Labs
  • Lab Industry Macro Trend: 1 More Laboratories and Hospitals Adopt Lean/Six Sigma Methods
  • Lab Industry Macro Trend: 2 Accreditation Shift Continues, Improving Outcomes is the Goal
  • Lab Industry Macro Trend: 3 Provider "Pay for Performance" Is on the Verge of Exploding
  • Lab Industry Macro Trend: 3 Provider "Pay for Performance" Is on the Verge of Exploding
  • Lab Industry Macro Trend: 4 More Employers Expand Health Choices for Employees
  • Lab Industry Macro Trend: 5 Evolution in Lab Instruments Triggers Operational Changes
  • Lab Industry Macro Trend: 6 "Do-All" Commercial Lab Model Is No Longer Dominant Form
  • Lab Industry Macro Trend: 7 Specialty Test Labs Becoming A Significant Market Trend
  • Lab Industry Macro Trend: 8 Med Tech Skill Sets Shifting Toward New Lab Technologies
  • Lab Industry Macro Trend: 9 Fewer & Fewer LIS Upgrades As Labs Opt for "Middleware"
  • Lab Industry Macro Trend: 10 Drive to the Universal EMR Will Require Response by Labs
  • Lab Industry Macro Trend: 11 Lab Contract Bid Models Are New Medicare/Medicaid Threat
  • Lab Industry Macro Trend: 12 Clinicians Expand Acceptance of Molecular-based Lab Tests
  • Lab Industry Macro Trend: 13 Automation is Soon to Hit Histology with Hurricane Force
  • Lab Industry Macro Trend: 14 Anti-Kickback Indictments May Trigger New Compliance Risks
  • INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
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The Dark Report January 3, 2005
  • R. Lewis Dark: Government Health Contracting Has a Seamy Side
  • OIG Releases Opinion On AP Lab Condominiums
  • Analysis of OIG's Opinion Shows Compliance Shift
  • More Lab Consolidation: LabCorp Buys US LABS
  • Molecular Update: Roche/Affymetrix Microarray Cleared for Clinical Use by FDA
  • Florida Medicaid Contract Is On-Again, Off-Again
  • INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
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