Empire City Laboratories

What Empire City Laboratories does

Empire City Laboratories was a Brooklyn-headquartered clinical laboratory business that provided routine and specialty diagnostic testing services to patients, healthcare providers, hospitals, and clinicians across the New York Tri-State area. The company operated a network of patient service centers (PSCs) where specimens were collected for centralized laboratory analysis, serving both individual consumers and institutional healthcare clients including health systems and physician practices.

The company's core offering was clinical laboratory testing services—routine and specialty diagnostics—delivered through its PSC network and in-house laboratory capacity. Underlying technology consisted of standard clinical lab instrumentation and workflows integrated with electronic health records and patient/provider portals (Wellcom platform), with no proprietary AI/ML components disclosed. The product set was narrowly focused: a single-offering diagnostic testing business rather than a multi-product platform, and all assets were transferred to Labcorp in February 2026.

Empire City generated revenue through fee-for-service diagnostic testing billed to patients, payors, and healthcare providers. The go-to-market was enterprise field sales combined with distributed PSC volume, serving healthcare providers (hospitals, clinicians, health systems) as the primary vertical and individual patients as a horizontal segment. Approximately 224 employees supported operations prior to the Labcorp acquisition, which closed February 9, 2026 for $165 million upfront plus up to $85 million in contingent milestones. Upon closing, Labcorp secured a multi-year agreement making it the clinically integrated laboratory provider for Somos, a New York provider network covering over one million members.

Name

Empire City Laboratories

Legal name

Empire City Laboratories

Website

https://empirecitylabs.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Operating status

Acquired

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

Empire City Laboratories was a Brooklyn-based clinical laboratory providing routine and specialty diagnostic testing through patient service centers in the New York Tri-State area, serving healthcare providers, hospitals, clinicians, and individual patients until its February 2026 acquisition by Labcorp.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Clinical Laboratory Services

NAICS

Medical Laboratories (621511), Medical and Diagnostic Laboratories (6215)

SIC

Services-Medical Laboratories (8071)

akta.pro primary industry

Clinical Research & Trial Central Laboratories (HLAFAMAL)

Keywords

• Clinical laboratory services
• Diagnostic testing services
• Patient service centers
• Medical laboratory testing
• Routine and specialty diagnostics

Headquarters

HQ city

Brooklyn

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Clinical Laboratory Testing Services: Fee-for-service clinical laboratory testing services provided to patients, healthcare providers, hospitals, and clinicians through patient service centers in the New York Tri-State area. Revenue generated from diagnostic testing procedures and laboratory services.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Empire City Laboratories was a clinical laboratory business providing routine and specialty diagnostic testing services to patients, healthcare providers, hospitals, and clinicians in the New York Tri-State area. The company operated patient service centers (PSCs) for specimen collection and laboratory testing, and supported providers through the Wellcom platform for test ordering and results. Following acquisition by Labcorp in February 2026, the operations were integrated into Labcorp's national diagnostic testing network.

Product overview

Empire City Laboratories was a single-offering clinical laboratory business providing patient service centers (PSCs) and clinical laboratory testing services in the New York Tri-State area. The company operated as a focused diagnostic testing service rather than a platform with multiple distinct products. All operations were acquired by Labcorp in February 2026.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Clinical Laboratory Testing Services Comprehensive clinical laboratory testing services including routine and specialty diagnostic tests, offered to patients, healthcare providers, hospitals, and clinicians throughout the New York Tri-State area. Specimens are collected at patient service centers and analyzed at clinical laboratory assets.
• Patient Service Centers (PSCs)

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• SomoscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 11 February 2026Following Labcorp's acquisition of Empire City Laboratories assets, Labcorp entered into a multi-year agreement with Somos, a network of New York healthcare providers serving over one million people. Under this agreement, Labcorp serves as Somos's clinically integrated laboratory provider of choice.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Quest Diagnostics: The largest U.S. clinical laboratory operator, directly comparable to Empire City as a national provider of routine and specialty diagnostic testing through patient service centers and hospital/health system partnerships.
• BioReference Laboratories: A regional clinical laboratory providing routine and specialty diagnostic testing across the U.S. Northeast, directly comparable to Empire City's model of regional PSC-based specimen collection and clinical diagnostics.
• Sonic Healthcare USA: An international clinical laboratory operator with U.S. operations providing routine and esoteric testing via patient service centers, overlapping directly with Empire City's fee-for-service clinical diagnostics model.
• Sunrise Medical Laboratories: A New York-area clinical laboratory providing routine and specialty testing with courier collection and patient service center access, directly comparable to Empire City on regional footprint and service mix.
• Enzo Clinical Labs: A New York-metro clinical laboratory offering routine and specialty diagnostic testing for physicians, hospitals, and patients, closely mirroring Empire City's regional PSC-and-lab-service operating model.
• ACM Medical Laboratory: A Northeast U.S.-based clinical laboratory providing diagnostic testing services to physicians and patients, comparable to Empire City on regional clinical lab operations and provider relationships.

Broad incumbents

• ARUP Laboratories: A national reference and esoteric clinical laboratory affiliated with the University of Utah, broadly comparable to Empire City's specialty testing capability but operating at much larger scale and broader geographic reach.
• Mayo Clinic Laboratories: A large academic reference laboratory offering specialty and esoteric testing nationwide, comparable to Empire City on the diagnostic testing category but materially broader in scope and test menu.

Regional players

• Northwell Health Laboratories: The in-house clinical laboratory arm of a large New York-area health system, providing routine and specialty diagnostic testing to affiliated hospitals and providers in the same metro where Empire City operated.

Emerging players

• Aegis Sciences Corporation: A specialty clinical laboratory focused on toxicology, pharmacogenomics, and infectious disease testing, comparable as an emerging regional/specialty diagnostic testing platform overlapping with Empire City's clinical lab category.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/EmpireCityLab
• Facebookfacebook.com/empirecitylabs

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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