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Marshfield Clinic Lab Tackles Phlebotomy Workflow Redesign

By Joseph Burns, from the Volume XXIII No. 5 - April 11, 2016 issue

CEO SUMMARY: Before a redesign of phlebotomy workflow at Marshfield Clinic, patients might wait as long as an hour, particularly before noon when phlebotomists would see 75% of each day’s patients. After the redesign, the number of draw sites was reduced from five to two while handling an increase in daily patient volume from 700 to 855. Patient wait times fell

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“October 3, 2005 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

By Robert Michel, from the Volume XII No. 14 - October 3, 2005 issue

It’s a small news item, but sometimes such tidbits presage a bigger story. On Monday, September 26, 2005, Quest Diagnostics Incorporated filed a notice with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it had received a subpoena from the New York Office of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The subpoena requested

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Volume XXVI No. 2 – February 4, 2019

NOW THAT MOST HOSPITALS ARE INCLUDED as applicable laboratories that must report their PAMA private payer lab test price data to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, managers of those labs will benefit from the incisive analysis in this issue of the lessons learned during the 2017 PAMA reporting cycle. THE DARK REPORT further offers recommendations on how labs can do a better job of gathering and reporting their own data to CMS. Also, TDR delivers an exclusive analysis of why the Government Accounting Office's assertion that CMS will be paying billions more for Part B clinical lab tests is simply wrong.

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