US Product Launch Strategy & Implementation

Our team has over 60 years’ combined experience developing and launching dozens of diagnostic product and service offerings for Quest Diagnostics (formerly SmithKline Labs), Laboratory Corporation of America (formerly National Health Labs), DuPont, Ortho Biotech/J & J and several smaller firms.  With the knowledge we have gained as customers, manufacturers, marketers and sellers, we can help establish medical and market advisory programs, sales forecasts, competitively superior pricing strategies, national account /reimbursement programs and effective presentations for distribution networks.

Recent successes include:

• Establishment and launch of new business unit of SmithKline Clinical Laboratories (now Quest Diagnostics)
• Development and management of Analytical Technologies Inc, a commercial laboratory services company
• Business development and marketing strategy for CIIT Centers for Health Research

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Getting FDA approval is the first crucial step in bringing a product to market. But negotiating reimbursement with the payers should have the same priority. This TCG White paper discusses the Do’s and Don’ts.