CEO SUMMARY: Growing numbers of hospital labs report that higher costs of new diagnostic tests have become a new management problem. Thatâs because diagnostic manufacturers are developing tests around a new business model, one that calls for higher pricing based on a premise of higher clinical value. Marketing campaigns for these new assays will become […]
High Cost of New Assays Stretching Lab Budgets
Increased costs of new test technologies are busting hospital laboratory budgets
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume IX No. 7 - May 13, 2002 Issue
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