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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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