2025 Executive War College: Trending topics and legal insightÂ
Each year, the Executive War College provides valuable information for everyone in the lab industry. The McDonald Hopkins Healthcare team monitors trending topics discussed at the conference and will provide key takeaways from this year’s EWC when the sessions conclude.
Below are some of the trending laboratory legal topics we have been monitoring, that will be covered during some of our sessions at the conference :
- Business and Marketing Strategies for Laboratories in Changing Times
- Behind the Curtain: Buyers Share What Drives Lab Valuations
- Current Market for Hospital Lab Outreach Transactions: Structuring the Deal and Management Service Arrangements
- Lab Valuation Trends: Factors That Drive High Values and Multiples in Acquisitions of Independent Labs, Genetic Labs, and Pathology Groups
- Latest Developments with FDA Oversight of LDTs: Court Cases, How to Comply and How to Operationalize and Analyze the Financial Impact of Compliance Now
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They’re Coming For You: Real Life Meets Risk; Practice Management & RCM
- Data Monetization: How to Stop Others from Using Your Lab Data. How to Sell Data. How to Avoid Givin Rights to your Data to Others
One important topic that remains consistent year-over-year is the transactional landscape - which, again, remains very active. Use the links below for information on healthcare transactions, guidance for those interested in selling their practice, and a look at some of the laboratory and pathology deals the McDonald Hopkins team has advised on.
McDonald Hopkins attorneys have a depth of experience representing clinical laboratories and pathology groups in all areas of business operations, from regulatory compliance to business arrangements. To learn more about the practice areas:
Ahead of this year's Executive War College, McDonald Hopkins is proud to launch "Legal Diagnosis," a healthcare podcast covering hot topics at the intersection of law, healthcare, and pathology/laboratory practices. Episodes will feature members of our national healthcare team along with guest legal experts, healthcare professionals, and industry leaders who will discuss the latest regulations, compliance challenges, and legal trends shaping the healthcare and path lab industry.
