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• R. Lewis Dark: Is CMS Playing 'Bait and Switch' in San Diego?
  
• San Diego Bid Demo Pilot Is Industry Turning Point
  
• Analyzing Lab Bid Demo To Predict Its Outcome
  
• Anticipate Access/Service Decline for S.D. Patients
  
• Local San Diego Lab Fights Bias In CMS Bid Demo
  
• Numerous Issues Identified With Bid Demo's 303 Tests
  
• Three Strikes Against CMS Before Bid Demo Begins
  
• Using a 1997 Bid Model In a 2007 Health Market
  
• Call to Action Is Needed For Lab Test Profession
  
• Speculating On How Labs Might Respond to Demo
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Building the Better Mousetrap for Lab Outreach
  
• Busy Year Demonstrated By Top Ten Lab Stories
  
• Newsmaker Interview: How PAML Built a Major Business In Lab Joint Ventures with Hospitals
  
• Lab Market Trends: Medicare Demo Bidders' Meeting Reveals Many Problems Ahead
  
• Integrated In Vivo-In Vitro: Is It Pathology's Future?
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Patient Satisfaction Has New Significance for Labs
  
• Medicare Rules Tighten Anatomic Path Mark-ups
  
• Market Update: PAML and HCA Agree to Start New Lab Joint Venture in Utah
  
• Labs in U.S. and Australia Learn from Each Other
  
• Lab Compliance Update: Federal Whistleblower Suit Settled by Dianon Systems
  
• Federal Whistleblower Suit Settled by Dianon Systems
  
• ARUP, Motoman Automate Thawing and Mixing Steps
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: A Pricing Strategy Soon to Boomerang?
  
• San Diego MSA Selected For Medicare Lab Demo
  
• Full Pathology Digitization Is Becoming Feasible
  
• Phlebotomy Gets Heightened Attention For Patient Satisfaction
  
• ISO 15189 Gains Favor For Lab Accreditation
  
• Health Guru Predicts End to Medical Errors
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Lean, Six Sigma and Laboratory Errors
  
• More Labs Actively Adopt Quality Management
  
• Shiel Medical Lab Grows In Tough NYC Market
  
• CDC Convenes Institute To Leverage Lab Testing
  
• Medicare Soon Won't Pay Hospitals for Errors
  
• Laboratory Error Results In Mistaken Mastectomy
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Heeding the Lessons of Market Competition
  
• Path Group Closes Its Lab After GIs Do In-Clinic Lab
  
• An Economic Perspective On Discounted PC Deals
  
• Quest South Florida Wins Governor's Award for Quality
  
• Health Trends: Cost of Health Benefits Outpaces Inflation in Ongoing, 7-Year Trend
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: EMR Links as Labs' Next Competitive Advantage
  
• Getting Connected: Labs Find Value in EMR Links
  
• Lab Billing Indictments Underscore Docs? Risks
  
• Path Group Responds to FBI Visits in Stokes Case
  
• Are Feds Ready to Strike at TC/PC Arrangements?
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Competing Against Regional Laboratories
  
• Siemens Acquires Dade, Builds IVD Powerhouse
  
• Quest, LabCorp Slug It Out In Battle for Market Share
  
• PSA, MED3000 Merger Creates Opportunities
  
• Unprecedented Activity Across Lab Medicine
  
• Misys Health Restructures By Selling Two Divisions
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Intense Competition for Market Share in New York
  
• Sonic Lands In New York With Sunrise Purchase
  
• GE's Deal for Abbott IVD Collapses Last Week
  
• BRLI Seizes NYC Share In Two-Stage Effort
  
• Exclusive Lab Contracts Have Consequences
  
• Lean/Six Sigma In Labs Becomes More Common
  
• Growing NeoGenomics Offers FISH Test TC/PC
  
• Lakewood Pathology Changes Leadership
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Recognizing Laboratory Leadership
  
• LabCorp Buys Hospital Outreach Lab in Florida
  
• DSI Sale Shows Value Of Lab Outreach Program
  
• $18 Million Judgment For Errors by Laboratory
  
• NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW: Global Laboratory Trends Dominated By Rising Costs and Labor Shortage
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Procter & Gamble Moves into the Neighborhood
  
• Quest Wants It Both Ways With Payer Contracts
  
• Inverness Buys Biosite, Has NewVenture with P&G
  
• Community Hospital Builds Thriving Lab Outreach Program
  
• Labs Are Finding Ways To Link Variety of EMRs
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Mass General Hospital Raises Bar on Transparency
  
• LabCorp & Sunrise CEOs Score at Exec War College
  
• Global Lab News>> Quest Diagnostics Regains Contract To Manage British Hospital Lab
  
• Newsmaker Interview: Emerging Global Trends in How Labs Are Using "Distributed Computing"
  
• ACLA Prepares to Tackle Tough Lab Industry Issues
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Is There A Power Shift in Pathology?
  
• Quest Bites: Will Pay $2 Billion for AmeriPath
  
• FDA Sends Warning Letter To Abbott Laboratories
  
• Newsmaker Interview: Why Labs Will Increase Their Use of Middleware and Informatics
  
• Joint Venture Launches Molecular Pathology Lab
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Bringing You the REAL Story behind the Story!
  
• Lots of IVD Acquisitions As Buyers Spend Money
  
• Mobile Pathology Service Fuels Increased Revenue
  
• Competitive Bid Update: Implementation Date Passes on Medicare Competitive Bid Project
  
• Newspaper Reports Miss On Molecular Technology
  
• Compliance Update: Will OIG Reconsider Policy On Discriminatory Pricing?
  
• Anatomic Pathology’s Coming Revolution: Same Day Diagnoses
  
• Labs Can Be Misguided By Pull-Through Test Myth
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: New Jersey Suspends UnitedHealth's Fines for Docs
  
• Aetna Says: LabCorp Is Out & Quest Diagnostics Is In
  
• Mobile Pathology Service Fuels Increased Revenue
  
• Pumping Up Performance Of Lab Billing & Collections
  
• Siemens Executive Speaks On Integration Strategies
  
• New Rules to Boost Cancer Test Accuracy
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: New Technologies Bring New Issues for Pathologists
  
• Quest Acknowledges Loss of United Business
  
• New Competive Forces Alter Market Status Quo
  
• LabCorp Uses United As a "Growth Driver"
  
• UK Laboratories Pushed To Serve Primary Care
  
• LIS As Productivity Tool Throughout the Laboratory
  
• Whooping Cough Cases Reveal Test Deficiencies
  
• New Rules to Boost Cancer Test Accuracy
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Of Radiology, Pathology, GE, Siemens, and Philips
  
• IVD Stunner: GE to Acquire Abbott's Diagnostics Unit
  
• JVHL Signs A Contract With UnitedHealth Group
  
• Mayo Rolls Out RFID After Only 5-Month Test
  
• Pathologist Says Labs Need Read-Write RFID
  
• Paperless at Bayou Path Generates Big Dividends
  
• Pay for Performance Update: CMS Gets Positive Results from Hospital P4P Demo
  
• CDC Seeks To Identify Best Laboratory Practices
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: A New Look and New Services for THE DARK REPORT
  
• Key Trends Drive Change For Clinical Laboratories
  
• 14 Lab Industry Macro Trends:
  
• Lean and Six Sigma Methods Set Deepening Roots in Labs
  
• Resurgence of Local Labs- But Most Are Owned by Hospitals
  
• Growing Use of EMRs by Docs Requires Response by Labs
  
• High-Deductible Health Plans Continue to Gain Enrollment
  
• Emphasis on Outcomes Seen In Lab Accreditation Programs
  
• Provider "Pay for Performance" Is Now AGiven in the U.S.
  
• Skilled Labor Crises Looms For Clinical Laboratory Industry
  
• More Automation In Labs, Including Histology Solutions
  
• Fewer LIS Upgrades Because Labs Opt for "Middleware"
  
• Steady Increase in Number Of Specialized Testing Labs
  
• Genetic and Molecular Tests To Further Integrate Lab & Path
  
• Lab Competitive Bid Project Is ANew Medicare Threat
  
• Real-Time QA/QC and Active Search for Lab Best Practices
  
• Evolution in Lab Instruments Will Soon Give Labs New Tools
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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