Vitamin D tests are a good example of wasteful test stuffing within routine lab panels. Several labs add an experimental subcomponent analysis to the Vitamin D panel that does not inform care.

Your blood serves numerous roles to maintain your health. To carry out these functions, blood contains a multitude of ...

UnitedHealth Group has signed long-term value-based care contracts with Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp, large U.S. diagnostic test companies.

New findings from the RECOVER-Adult cohort study show that 25 routine clinical lab tests are not effective in diagnosing postacute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection, echoing results from earlier ...

As the U.S. healthcare industry continues to advance value-based care and population health, lab testing price transparency and payment integrity programs should be a priority.

In medicine, a person’s blood-test results are compared with the average range in a population. But results are highly individual and tightly regulated around a person’s own stable values ...

Although the clinical laboratory plays a critical role in management of patients in both disease and health, some tests have been replaced by others and no longer provide value.

Officials at the Wadsworth Center, New York’s state lab, have access to C.T. values from tests they have processed, and analyzed their numbers at The Times’s request.

With the advance of analytics, lab data can be mined for further value in the system and lab stewardship can help [reduce] resource utilization, which can help bend the cost curve.” 2.