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The majority of respondents to LMT's 2023 Fee Survey are upbeat about their economic health, sales and profit levels.

As the global economy began recovering from losses caused by the pandemic, inflation surged and by June 2022 it was at its highest level in 40 years, affecting everything from the price of groceries to the housing market.

As a result of these economic pressures and uncertainty, lab operators took proactive...

With the increase in consolidation and mergers among manufacturers and suppliers as well as companies changing their product lines—see the Newsbriefs for the latest news—this issue, LMT’s...

“We can’t do it without you” is the tagline we use in the cover letter of our surveys and it’s absolutely true. All of LMT’s survey reports wouldn’t be possible without you taking the time to offer your valuable responses and input.

To all those who participated in...

Feeling slammed? Working serious overtime? Eager for better work/life balance? If so, you’re in good company: almost 60% of the respondents to our

We like to call ourselves, “the Data Queens,” because we love conducting and analyzing surveys. Our analysis enables us to help you know where the market is headed, how it’s doing and what products and techniques are ruling the roost. Surveys help us get inside your head and enable...

One of the recurring comments from laboratory owner-respondents to LMT’s Fee Survey is that they’re feeling the bottom-line effects of the retirement of one or more long-time clients. 

That’s the thing about long-time clients: they get old. Sure, you have developed wonderful relationships...

It’s fair to say that layered porcelain has been replaced to a large degree by milled full contour zirconia (FCZ). Many of the small- and medium-sized laboratory owners I talk to are disenchanted with the fee structure of FCZ restorations; they feel forced into the FCZ price wars, are struggling...

The vast majority of respondents to LMT’s 2016 Fee Survey are delaying price increases due to price competition and other factors.

Most people probably respond to the question posed in the headline above with something like, “because it makes me feel good to do something nice for someone else.” So what do I want your help with? Plain and simple: I want YOUR participation in LMT surveys.

Next month begins LMT’s...

Competing on price is not, of course, an unfamiliar reality—production/high volume laboratories have been the perceived competitors of small laboratories for decades. But now, with digital technology available to all size laboratories, the competitive arena enables some laboratories to make a comfortable...

LMT’s 2014 Fee Survey respondents offer a mixed picture of their sales and profitability. On one hand, laboratory sales seem to be slowly improving. Profits, though, seem to be lagging behind.

The great transition taking hold of the way our community works is far from settling down as strategies continue to be employed and tested by tomorrow’s business leaders. Some of the changes have the capacity to pull the rug out from under us even as we retool to adapt to today’s innovations.

Though...

Over the last 30 years or so, the use of alternative/complementary medical therapies has become more widespread in the U.S. Now allopathic (traditional) practices are taking a more holistic approach to healthcare and the trend is continuing to generate more avenues of opportunity.

In addition, as we...

It would be downright silly to suggest anyone actually likes taxes so it’s no surprise that a coalition of 400 medical device manufacturers voiced its opposition to the 2.3% excise tax on medical devices slated to go into effect January 1, 2013.

How about a round of applause for one- to three-person laboratory owners? With almost another decade to go before many of these operators feel "the calling" to retire, they are still very much engaged in the here and now and are clearly living the well-disciplined, well-balanced life. Bravo.

The results...

Fees are up 8% nationwide over the last two years, according to a comparison of LMT’s 2008 and 2006 Fee Surveys. Prices have increased across the board for all specialties and 70% of respondents say profitability has improved.