The number and complexity of available lab tests has increased rapidly in recent years, making it difficult for clinicians to stay on top of the best, most appropriate tests to order. This can lead to ...

Laboratory tests represent the single highest-volume medical intervention, with over 7 billion tests performed every year in the U.S. Although results from diagnostic testing are estimated to ...

* Context.-Tests that are performed outside of the ordering institution, send-out tests, represent an area of risk to patients because of complexity associated with sending tests out. Risks related to ...

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Optum today announced the launch of a comprehensive laboratory benefit management solution designed to help health plans reduce unnecessary lab testing and ensure ...

Genetic counselors (GCs) increasingly serve a variety of roles across the healthcare spectrum, including test utilization management. Our data show that utilizing the expertise of GCs reduced test ...

Cost display and cost charge induce different test ordering behavior depending on the healthcare setting. Objectives: To study the effects on the number of laboratory tests ordered after introduction ...

Project Lead for the Clinical Laboratory Integration into Health Care Collaboration (CLIHC), Division of Laboratory Programs, Standards, and Services Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, an Due to ...

Utilization management policy has many forms, but has become increasingly complex as cancer scientific discovery has blossomed, cancer subtypes have become more numerous, therapeutic opportunities ...