Laboratory and Pathology White Papers
12.2005
Special Edition White Paper
Pathologists: Will CDHP-insured Patients Pay You?
Helping Labs Get Ahead Of the CDHP Tsunami
Timely insights to help craft effective strategies to benefit from healthcare's emerging big trend
Newsmaker Interview: Paul Mango
Consumer-Directed Health Plans To Be Healthcare's Next Wave
New plans give consumers financial incentives to become savvy buyers of their healthcare
Consumer-Directed Health Plans To Be Healthcare's Next Wave topics include:
- Changing Consumer Behavior
- Managed Care Problems of the 1990s
- Economic Basis of CDHPs
- Explaining HSAs, HRAs, FSAs
- Changes Soon to Confront Hospitals
- Hospitals Face Effective Competitors
- CDHPs Change Hospital Bad Debt
- Why CDHPs Are a Threat to Payers
- “Balance After Insurance” Problem
- Financial Firms to Pursue HSAs
- Four"Must Do's" to Win with CDHPs
- Changes in Labs' Revenue Cycle
- EPTs-Episode Treatment Groups
12.2002
Special Intelligence Briefing!
Understanding the genomic/proteomic revolution and how it will reshape medicine!
The Dark Report is pulling out the crystal ball in this issue and gazing into the future with Rick Carlson. He is an "insider" in the full sense of the term. He has access to thought leaders and information unavailable to the media. Because of this fact, his information represents the best intelligence available on how genetic knowledge will change the healthcare system we serve today. More importantly, I encourage you to use this intelligence to help your laboratory or pathology group practice develop appropriate business and clinical strategies.
- Page 1: R. Lewis Dark—Useful Crystal-Ball Gazing
- Page 2: Grasping the Impact Of the Coming Genetic Revolution
- NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW: RICK J. CARLSON
- Page 3: Laboratories Sit Squarely Between New Genetics And Today’s Medicine
- Page 11: Institute For the Future Projects 20-Year Trajectory For Genetic Technology Development
12.2000
Dark Report presents "White Paper" Summary of Laboratory Industry
Unmet challenges of the 1990s still require appropriate response by lab industry leaders
Introduction: To celebrate five eventful years of service to the laboratory industry and pathology profession, The Dark Report is pleased to present its first "White Paper" on the laboratory industry. Our goal is to help laboratories and their suppliers accurately identify relevant market dynamics and understand how and why these market forces will affect the stability and financial fortunes of laboratories during the first 24 to 36 months of this new decade.
- Chapter 1: Business Premises Underlying Laboratory Industry Dynamics
- Chapter 2: Strategic Business Failures of the Laboratory Industry During the 1990s
- Chapter 3: Competitive Dynamics in the Lab Testing Marketplace
- Chapter 4: Summary and Overview of Lab Industry
