title: Predicting the costs of laboratory testing.
abstract: Prospective reimbursement is forcing laboratories across the country to reduce their expenditures. Following are an analysis of the direct and indirect costs in the laboratory and mathematical equations that can be used for predicting them.
mesh_terms: D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques / Q000191:economics*; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D014481:United States