THE CLINICAL LABORATORY

The clinical laboratory is a cornerstone of every primary care practice.

Data from the clinical laboratory is critical to detect disease or the predisposition of disease, confirm or reject a diagnosis, establish prognosis, guide patient management, and monitor the efficacy of therapy.

U.S. Healthcare Reforms have established “new clinical guidelines” to direct primary care physicians toward evidence based practices.

Insurers understand they can not improve what they do not measure. As they focus on improved patient outcomes, insurers want to obtain data to scientifically validate measures of physical and mental health status. Insurers want to document the patients condition (stable, improving, or deteriorating based on clinical laboratory data.)

Waived Vs. Non-Waived

Most physician offices perform CLIA "waived" testing. Its simple, doesn’t require qualified personnel, and avoids the hassles of quality control, proficiency testing, and inspections...

...but "waived" testing is limited in availability of data and has an exceptionally high cost.

If your primary care practice sees 60 patients per day and your clinical laboratory is "WAIVED," you are missing out on over $150,000.00 per year in net revenues.

Medical Source can show you the way.