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Item 1. Business
Quest Diagnostics Incorporated is the world's leading provider of diagnostic testing information services. We provide
insights that empower and enable patients, physicians, hospitals, integrated delivery networks (each an "IDN"), health plans,
employers and others to make better healthcare decisions.
Quest Diagnostics was incorporated in Delaware in 1990; its predecessor companies date back to 1967. We conduct
business through our headquarters in Madison, New Jersey, and our laboratories, patient service centers, offices and other
facilities around the United States and in selected locations outside the United States. Unless the context otherwise requires, the
terms “Quest Diagnostics,” the “Company,” “we” and “our” mean Quest Diagnostics Incorporated and its consolidated
subsidiaries.
During 2013, we generated net revenues of $7.1 billion and processed approximately 147 million test requisitions.
Additional financial information concerning Quest Diagnostics, including our consolidated subsidiaries and businesses, for
each of the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012 and 2011 is included in the consolidated financial statements and notes
thereto in “Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” in Part II, Item 8.