Clinical Laboratory Tests as a Commodity: Why Government Health Programs Won’t Spend More

Speakers from the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada provide useful prospectives Too often, pathology laboratory testing is treated as a commodity by government health officials in the United States and other countries. But treating lab testing as a commodity has negative long-term consequences for health systems which try to pay the cheapest price for medical laboratory testing. As pathologists and clinical laboratory managers know all too well, clinical pathology laboratory...
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