Healthcare is facing growing pressure to reduce waste and unnecessary spending, yet misalignment among patients, providers, health plans, and government programs makes this difficult. Clinical lab testing highlights these competing expectations, since it is essential to diagnosis and cost management, but is influenced by differing priorities.
In this article, Avalon’s Dr. Kristie Ressler and Mike Snyder explain how Lab stewardship provides structure by promoting correct test use, supporting provider education, increasing transparency, and applying evidence based laboratory policies and diagnostic intelligence and how this approach advances the shared goal of affordable, accessible, high quality healthcare.
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