- Sonic partners with NYU Langone to form a joint venture, NYU Langone Diagnostics, to grow NYU outreach and lab business.
- Sonic acquires West Pacific Medical Laboratory, based in Santa Fe Springs, California.
- Sonic acquires Eastridge Medical Laboratory, Inc and merges it with American Esoteric Laboratories (AEL)
- Sonic partners with Baptist Memorial Health Care to establish a bacteriology center of excellence in Memphis, Tennessee.
- Sonic and Western Connecticut Health Network form a joint venture, Constitution Diagnostics Network, to provide enhanced laboratory services throughout Connecticut.
- Sonic acquires Zangmeister laboratory of Columbus, Ohio and merges it with Pathology Laboratories, Inc.
- Sonic launches Sonic Reference Laboratory in Austin, TX, a state-of-the-art esoteric testing laboratory which services all of the Sonic Healthcare USA laboratory divisions.
- Sonic acquires East Lakeside Laboratory, of Jackson, Mississippi and merges it with American Esoteric Laboratories (AEL)
- Sonic launches iMorpheus, an informtics solution which provides real-time clinical decision support and advanced healthcare informatics capabilities utilizing an agile pattern recognition software guided by Sonic’s worldclass medical expertise.
- Sonic acquires Laboratory Acquistion Corp of Montgomery, Alabama and merges it with Amercian Esoteric Laboratories (AEL)
- Sonic completes its second Californian acquisition, Central Coast Pathology, based in San Luis Obispo.
- Sonic Healthcare acquires CBLPath, an anatomical pathology company in Rye Brook, New York.
- Sonic Healthcare enters California with the acquisition of Physician's Automated Laboratory based in Bakersfield.
- Sonic Healthcare acquires Axiom Laboratories in Tampa, Florida. The business is merged with The Cognoscienti Health Institute.
- Sonic Healthcare acquires the business of Piedmont Medical Laboratory, in Winchester, Virginia.
- Sonic acquires East Side Clinical Laboratory, based in East Providence, Rhode Island.
- Sonic Healthcare acquires American Clinical Services, Inc, based in New Jersey and merges it with Sunrise Medical Laboratories.
- Sonic acquires Consultant Pathology Services, Inc, (New Orleans, Louisiana), El Paso Med Partners, (El Paso, Texas) and DX, Inc. (Midland, Texas) and merges them with Clinical Pathology Laboratory
- Sonic acquires Clinical Laboratories of Hawaii
- Sonic acquires Pan Pacific Pathologists, Inc.
- Through hospital contracts Clinical Laboratories of Hawaii expands to serve 42 percent of the beds in Hawaii
- Sonic Healthcare USA, Inc., Sonic's US head office, is established in Austin, Texas, and given the authority and responsibility for planning, directing and controlling the group's US operations.
- Sonic Healthcare acquires American Esoteric Laboratories with laboratories in Tennessee and Texas. The Texas operations are merged into CPL.
- Sonic Healthcare acquires remaining 18% of Clinical Pathology Laboratories (CPL).
- Sonic Healthcare acquires Mullins Pathology & Cytology Laboratory P.C. (Augusta, Georgia).
- Sunrise Medical Laboratories is acquired, a full-service clinical reference laboratory servicing Long Island and the New York metropolitan area.
- Sonic Healthcare acquires Woodbury Clinical Laboratory, based in Lebanon, Tennessee.
- Sonic becomes Europe's largest medical laboratory group, and the third largest in the USA.
- Sonic Healthcare acquires Muskogee Clinical Laboratory (Muskogee, Oklahoma).
- Sonic Healthcare acquires The Cognoscenti Health Institute (East Orlando, Florida).
- Sonic Healthcare acquires Lookadoo Skyline Laboratories (Port St. Lucie, Florida).
- Sonic Healthcare acquires an 82% interest in Clinical Pathology Laboratories, Inc. (CPL), the largest privately owned regional pathology laboratory in the United States of America.