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Slashing send-out costs with lab formularies

July 2014—A glance at most hospital laboratory spreadsheet makes it clear: Where laboratories could reduce high-cost reference testing for inpatients and unreimbursed send-out testing for outpatients, the savings would be striking. But voluntary education programs geared to improving test ordering practices are known to have their limits. Could a mild form of, well, coercion be helpful?

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