Utilization Management in the Clinical Laboratory and Other Ancillary Services (eBook)

Kent Lewandrowski, M.D. is the Director of Pathology Laboratories and Molecular Medicine and Associate Chief of Pathology at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also director of the hospital point-of-care program and the Quality Chair of the Department of Pathology. He is a Professor at Harvard Medical School with research interests in the evaluation of point-of-care technologies and outcomes studies concerning implementation of point-of-care testing. Dr. Lewandrowski was trained in anatomic and clinical pathology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and has been on the staff of the department of Pathology since 1991. He is also editor in chief of the medical journal "Point of Care: The Journal of Near Patient Testing Technologies."  

1 Healthcare Reform and its Impact on Medical ReimbursementLuis Ticona 2 Utilization management in the clinical laboratory: an introduction and overviewKent Lewandrowski, Jason Baron, Anand Dighe3 Effective Governance Structure and Management of Utilization ProgramsJeffrey S. Warren4 Informatics, Analytics and Decision Support in Utilization ManagementJason Baron5 Utilization Management Employing Test Interpretations and AlgorithmsElizabeth M. Van Cott6 Calculating Costs and Savings in Utilization ManagementPatrick M. Sluss7 Benchmarking and Management Metrics in Utilization ManagementIda Bixho, Stacey E.F. Melanson8 Laboratory FormulariesPetr Jarolim9 Utilization and Other Resource Management in Clinical ChemistryAlan H.B. Wu10 Utilization Management in the Routine Hematology LaboratoryJoseph Rudolf, Kent Lewandrowski11 Patient Blood ManagementCyril Jacquot, Evan M. Bloch12 Utilization Management of Blood DerivativesStephan Kadauke13 Utilization Management in the Clinical Microbiology LaboratoryKent Lewandrowski, Eric S. Rosenberg, John A Branda14 Utilization Management in a Large Community HospitalFrederick L. Kiechle, Rodney C. Arcenas15 Utilization Management: The Role of Reference LaboratoriesBrian Jackson 16 Utilization Management in Anatomic PathologyKent Lewandrowski17 Utilization Analysis in HematopathologyAnnette S.  Kim, Claudia A. Mosse, Aaron C. Shaver, Adam C. Seegmiller 18 Laboratory UtilizationDaniel Dante Yeh19 Test Utilization: Controlling costs in Reference Laboratory TestingValerie L. Ng20 Utilization Management of Genetic TestingJane A. Dickerson, Jessie H Conta, Christina M Lockwood21 The Use of Physician Profiling and Prior Approval (Gatekeeping) in Utilization Management in the Clinical LaboratoryKent Lewandrowski, Jason Baron22 Test utilization: The Essential Role of the Clinical ConsultantElizabeth Stewart, Valerie L. Ng23 The Role of the Genetic Counselor in Utilization ManagementKelly Branda24 Utilization Management in RadiologyGarry Choy, Alexander Ryu25 Strategies for the Clinical and Financial Management of Drug UtilizationChristopher Fortier, Nathan Thompson, Prabashni Reddy, Andy Pulvemacher26 Laboratory Utilization Management in CanadaChristopher Naugler27 Utilization Management Initiatives That Can Be Imported into Health Care SystemsPatrick M. Sluss