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Industry Insight Articles
Maximizing the Lifespan of Your Laboratory Instrumentation
Your laboratory’s instruments play an essential role in your research, but they can also be a source of high costs. After making significant investments to acquire these pieces, your lab may also need to pay significant sums to repair and eventually replace them. This...
9 Must-Have Skills for Your Lab Technician Resume
By: Andrei Kurtuy, guest contributor, Co-Founder & CCO of Novoresume.com For any career, you need a strong resume to help get your foot in the door and lab technicians are no exception. But as someone in the Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) field,...
Navigating the Licensing and Accreditation Process for a Lab
When a new clinical lab prepares to open its doors, its owners and managers can find themselves focusing on many aspects, such as whether it has the right team members or equipment. However, you should also ensure it achieves licensing and accreditation, as these can...
How to Apply for CLIA Certification – Filling out CMS-116 Application
Are you thinking about opening a clinical laboratory? If so, and you’ve identified your test menu, instrumentation, and have hired a Laboratory Director, you’re now ready to obtain your CLIA certification. “What are the next steps in the process to apply for a CLIA...
Managed Care Contracting: How Hospital Labs Can Improve Their Negotiating Approach
When it comes to managed care contracting, hospital laboratories face an increasingly complex landscape. Navigating these contracts effectively can make the difference between thriving financially and struggling to maintain operations. Understanding key contract...
Diversity and Inclusion in the Clinical Lab Workforce
A clinical laboratory’s workforce plays an essential role in delivering accurate and timely results that guide doctors’ decisions. However, some laboratories overlook the need to engage in diversity and inclusion efforts. Hiring people with different life experiences...
Exploring Value-Based Care: Insights and Opportunities for Medical Labs
Value-based care represents a transformative shift in healthcare, prioritizing patient outcomes and cost efficiency over the traditional fee-for-service model. But despite its promise, transitioning to value-based care (VBC) is sometimes perceived as a challenge for...
New CMS Requirements for Laboratory Directors: What Labs Need to Know
If you're working in the clinical lab space, there are some key updates from CMS regarding laboratory director qualifications to be aware of. These changes, which took effect on Dec. 28, 2024, are broken down below so labs and aspiring directors understand what's...
What Is a “CLIA Lab Director” and What Are Their CLIA Requirements?
The Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) regulations specify the requirements for becoming a lab director. Rigorous standards ensure labs have qualified directors for high- and moderate-complexity testing. The lab director ensures CLIA compliance in the...
News & Press Releases
The Hybrid Work-Flex Model: How Lighthouse Lab Services Has Adapted to the Modern Workplace
Disclaimer: Flexible work arrangements were put into place by Lighthouse Lab Services as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic. While the ability to create flexible work plans with the approval of supervisors and Human Resources remains in place for many Lighthouse...
Press Release: Lighthouse Acquires Burns Consulting Group, Strengthens Managed Care Contracting Services
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – August 18, 2021 (Charlotte, NC): Finalized in August, North Carolina-based Lighthouse Lab Services is proud to announce its acquisition of Burns Consulting Group, with offices in Houston, Texas, and Kansas City, Mo. With this acquisition,...
Press Release: Lighthouse makes Inc. 5000 List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - August 17, 2021 Lighthouse Lab Services makes Inc. Magazine’s Annual List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies—the Inc. 5000 For the 3rd Time, Lighthouse Lab Services Appears on the Inc. 5000, Ranking No. 1,156 ...
In the Company of Heroes: Our Values and Culture at Lighthouse
By Dionne Blount, versatile reinforcement for Charlotte HQ of Lighthouse Lab Services (but you can call us L.M.S.I.). When examining the things I feel knowledgeable about in my work at Lighthouse, I was led to reflect on all the things I do not know or fully...
Press Release: Lighthouse Lab Services Acquires Nation’s Premiere Pathology and Laboratory Revenue Cycle Auditing Firm, Vachette Pathology
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - April 12, 2021 (Charlotte, NC): At the beginning of April, North Carolina-based Lighthouse Lab Services is proud to announce its acquisition of Vachette Pathology of Sylvania, Ohio. Lighthouse Lab Services adds new expertise and...
Learn More About Our New CEO
Mark Roth went from laid off to CEO of an industry-leading Laboratory Consulting firm in the US. Elite Diagnostics, LLC, and Lighthouse Lab Services announced in March that they have completed a merger of their business operations. This merger creates...
Press Release: Transaction Creates Industry-Leading Laboratory Consulting and Recruiting Firm in US
Elite Diagnostics and Lighthouse Lab Services Complete Merger Charlotte, NC/Holly Springs, NC— March 4th, 2020 — Elite Diagnostics, LLC, and Lighthouse Lab Services, in partnership with NaviMed Capital, a Washington, DC-based healthcare-focused private equity...
A Letter From Our Founder
I am excited to announce that Lighthouse Recruiting, LLC, Laboratory Start-Up Consultants, LLC, and Laboratory Broker, LLC are merging to become Lighthouse Lab Services, effective April 2018. Separately, our companies have developed innovative ways to offer solutions...