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Labcorp
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Labcorp is one of the two national US clinical labs, with Quest Diagnostics as the rival. Health plans and hospital outreach contracts decide which draw site a patient's blood goes to.
Overview
Labcorp is based in Burlington, North Carolina. It runs patient service centers, processes routine and esoteric tests, and signs outreach agreements that let it pick up specimens from physicians who used to send work to a hospital lab.
Quest is the other company with a national draw-site network. A health plan that names one of them in-network, or exclusive for routine testing, moves volume overnight because doctors follow the requisition the payer prefers.
The contract-research business Fortrea was spun out, so Labcorp's competition story is diagnostics rather than running trials. Hospital systems that sell their outreach book to Labcorp are choosing a long-term send-out partner for tests they will not perform in house.
Competition footprint
Payer networks and exclusive routine-testing deals are the main share shifts between Labcorp and Quest.
Hospital outreach acquisitions transfer a physician customer list and a courier route together.
Esoteric menus keep specimens inside Labcorp even when a local hospital can run the basic metabolic panel.
Consumer & business angle
Patients are sent to a specific draw site and often cannot choose the other national lab under their plan.
Physicians rebuild order sets and interfaces when a health system changes its outreach vendor.
What to watch
- Health-plan contract renewals that name Labcorp or Quest as the preferred national lab.
- Hospital outreach acquisitions and any in-sourcing of tests back into health-system labs.
Markets
clinical laboratory testing · hospital outreach labs
Also known as: laboratory corporation of america
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