Abstract
As hospitals fight for their portion of reimbursed health care expenditures, it will become increasingly necessary to investigate alternative funding mechanisms. In-house laboratories, which have likely been seen in the past as pure cost centers, can be repositioned to provide additional revenue to hospitals. This opportunity for in-house laboratories to be remade into profit centers is predicated upon a thorough understanding of the environmental factors affecting hospital laboratories. This article examines 4 distinct environmental factors: demographic and socioeconomic trends, reimbursement and financing, government policy, and clinical events. Each of these external environmental factors provides 2 broad sources of interest to hospitals and their in-house laboratory components: opportunities on which to capitalize and hazards against which to defend.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 4-10 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | The health care manager. |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 2010 |
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Keywords
- Environmental scan
- Health care policy
- Laboratories
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Health Policy
- Care Planning
- Health(social science)
- Leadership and Management
- Medicine(all)
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Hospital in-house laboratories : Examining the external environment. / Cortelyou-Ward, Kendall; Rotarius, Timothy; Liberman, Aaron; Trujillo, Antonio Jose.
In: The health care manager., Vol. 29, No. 1, 01.2010, p. 4-10.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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