How Close Is the End of Private Practice Pathology as We’ve Known It?

Payers are cutting reimbursements for anatomic pathology services, making it essential for every pathology group to understand its financial present and future Certain pathology business leaders are warning their colleagues that the era of private pathology group practice domination of the anatomic pathology marketplace is about to end. The only question is how rapidly the clinical and financial foundations of smaller pathology group practices erodes to the point where these groups are unable...

Facing the Looming End of Fee-for-Service, Clinical Laboratories and Anatomic Pathology Groups Look for New Business Models

Failing finances at technical pathology laboratories may be the most immediate concern for many pathology group practices Many clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology groups now recognize the new reality of the American healthcare system: less reimbursement for laboratory testing. On one hand, the fee-for-service prices for lab tests paid by government and private payers have been aggressively slashed. On the other hand, all payers have become stubbornly resistant to issuing coverage...

New AP Company Buys Five Pathology Group Practices

It may be a good news/bad news development for the anatomic pathology profession. This week a new anatomic pathology company made itself official and announced that it had already signed letters of intent to purchase five pathology laboratories. Aurora Diagnostics, Inc. is the new firm. Based in Palm Beach, Gardens, Florida, it was launched by four lab industry veterans. Aurora Diagnostics represents good news in anatomic pathology because it wants to buy anatomic pathology groups and...
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