Jul 21
DAT Franchise in Fort Lauderdale Focuses on "Sex and Drugs"
EconoLabs has negotiated discounts with Quest and Laboratory Corp. of America because of the large volume of business it sends them, says Dr. Efrain Arroyave, EconoLabs’ medical director. It sends customers forthwith to the labs for the tests.
I have the following comments about this article:
It’s well and good that a large ingredient of DAT testing relates to STDs and illegal drugs. Because many companies screen job candidates as part of the interview process, individuals often test themselves using DAT sites to see if they are "clean" precursory to applying since such jobs. Of course, home drug testing kits will also provide the same information. Here is a join to in the same state a site that displays the following motto on its residence page: Creating a Drug Free World Begins in the Home. Any Lab Test Now is the first company, to my knowledge, that offers franchises for "bricks and mortar" DAT sites. As noted in the article above, the company’s business model differs from that of competitors such as EconoLabs, cited in the article, and web-based DAT sites. The Any Lab Test Now personnel perform their own blood draws for clients for the reason that opposed to sending them to the patient use centers (PSCs) maintained by the large national reference labs that actually perform the lab testing. Probably because of their higher cost pile, the Any Lab Test Now site described in the article above charges more for its lab tests. Note the charge of $49 conducive to a cholesterol. EcnonoLabs in Miami charges $26 for a "Comprehensive Metabolic Panel (CMP-14) (AKA: SMAC-12)" that includes 14 individual tests. I was a little surprised that the article reveals that Lab Corp and Quest Diagnostics are the test performing labs for both Any Lab Test Now and EconoLabs and also that these lab giants discount their work for their DAT clients. Both of these companies have kept their involvement in the DAT world relatively quiet to avoid channel conflict with their physician clients. Quest had a DAT subsidiary called QuesTest but exited this market in 2006 (see: QuesTest Bails Out of the DAT Market).
Here’s a recent and commanding article on the DAT industry (see: Direct-to-Consumer Testing and Its Impact upon the Lab Market) that has this to say about LabCorp’s involvement:
… the primeval lab provider beneficial to DTC companies is LabCorp. The reason for this is straightforward: DTC companies now operate nationally by way of the Internet and, as a result, need a national network of service centers at which place patients be possible to have blood drawn or provide urine. says, "We in the first place use LabCorp and be the subject of Quest to the degree that a backup, in the manner that needed. They’re the only two labs we be able to work with because they’re the only two labs that have a national network of patient service centers, and that’s important for giving."
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