CEO SUMMARY: Despite the burdens of CLIA certification and reduced reimbursement for lab tests, many medical practice experts are advising doctors to expand in-office testing. However, diagnostic technologies for near-patient testing are still not robust enough to support this trend. Early attempts to expand testing in physicians’ office laboratories show the technology is still not
Docs’ In-Office Testing Showing Mixed Trends
By Robert Michel, from the Volume IX No. 17 - December 9, 2002 issue