Aug 14, 2009 | Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology
Clinical laboratories can play a role in two of these ten cost-cutting opportunities Everyone in healthcare expects significant across-the-board cuts to reimbursement as healthcare reform moves forward. High profile targets for cost-cutting are imaging technologies and physician preference items (PPIs), which include expensive supplies and implant products, including stents, wires, pacemakers, and knee/hip replacement prosthetics. Hospitals and health systems, in recognition of this major...
