The role of reflexive (algorithmic) testing in laboratory medicine: adapting to the new era.
Centralized Laboratory Services, Inc. (CLS) is a large, freestanding laboratory that is an affiliate of the Health Insurance Plan of New York, a managed care organization with more than 1 million members in New York and New Jersey. The laboratory work for this membership is consolidated at CLS, which thus serves an ambulatory patient population. The Medical Director at CLS is charged with optimizing laboratory utilization by clinicians who are part of the system.
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Centralized Laboratory Services, Inc. (CLS), NY, USA.
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