{"id":207,"date":"2016-05-15T18:23:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T22:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ws05\/blogportal\/enews\/?p=207"},"modified":"2016-05-15T18:23:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T22:23:04","slug":"lab-utilization-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/2016\/05\/lab-utilization-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab Utilization Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that we have a Lab Utilization committee that is tasked with reviewing current lab utilization practices as well as any requests for new services?\u00a0 This is a multidisciplinary, physician driven team, that reports up to Utilization Management (and ultimately the Medical Executive Committee) that is tasked with a comprehensive review of any request, including performance characteristics, supporting evidence, costs, and appropriate utilization. \u00a0The group reviews any new lab testing: inpatient, outpatient, or point of care.\u00a0 To initiate a review for a new test or expansion of existing testing, please email the Director of the Clinical Laboratory, Charlene Bierl MD, PhD (<a href=\"mailto:bierl-charlene@cooperhealth.edu\"><u><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;color: #0000ff;font-size: x-large\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;color: #0000ff;font-size: x-large\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;color: #0000ff;font-size: x-large\">bierl-charlene@cooperhealth.edu<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/u><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: x-large\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: x-large\">).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that we have a Lab Utilization committee that is tasked with reviewing current lab utilization practices as well as any requests for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}