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This is true. The problem where I was is that I lost control of the Lab to the Administrative people. They decide on the minimum to save costs on all areas of the Lab. The Chief of Pathology left (actually was fired when I was away on vacation. I found ...

All of US medicine is essentially forced to use CMS panels for outpatient testing (for insurance purposes) to encourage appropriate laboratory testing and minimize fraud (HCFAs logic for implementation in 1997) but we are not forced to use them for inpatients ...

We never really talk about what I call the "Dark Side of Laboratory Test Utilization"; that is to say high volume/high reimbursable outpatient laboratory testing that administrative directors are loath to cut down on because they are literally ATMs for ...