Intermountain Health’s central lab in Murray, Utah, has expanded and nearly doubled in size to help lower testing costs and improve lab services for patients and the system’s hospitals in the region.

Efforts to reduce unnecessary medical testing have led some hospitals to scale back the use of a decades-old inflammation test known as the erythrocyte sedimentation rate, or ESR. But new research ...

Right now, there's a 0 percent reduction cap in place for Medicare Part B users, which means patients don't have any upfront costs for these lab tests. But in a few weeks, the government plans to ...

FPK Services has launched nationwide direct-to-consumer blood testing via HealthLabs.com, allowing patients to order allergy ...

A new rapid test for hepatitis C could help identify many more patients who could be cured of the deadly disease, but its use may be limited unless insurers’ reimbursement rises to cover its high cost ...

A blood sample for an erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) test. Efforts to reduce unnecessary medical testing have led some hospitals to scale back the use of a decades-old inflammation test known as ...