Tough Economic Times Motivate Hospitals to Migrate Away from Unprofitable Clinical Service Lines

Clinical laboratory outreach programs gain favor because of many clinical benefits—along with healthy profit margins In the wake of the severe recession and weak recovery, hospitals across the country recognized they could no longer carry unprofitable programs. That is why, in recent years, a growing number of hospitals reduced or discontinued unprofitable services even as the number of hospital clinical laboratory outreach programs increased. During this same time, the hospital industry...
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