Laboratory information enables physicians and other healthcare professionals to make appropriate evidence-based diagnostic or therapeutic decisions for their patients. Clinical laboratory services are the most cost effective, least invasive source of the objective information used in clinical decision-making.
Clinical lab services are tests on specimens from the body (such as blood or urine) that are used to diagnose and treat patients. … Lab services that include physician work, such as surgical pathology, are paid under the fee schedule for physicians and other health professionals.
A medical laboratory or clinical laboratory is a laboratory where clinical pathology tests are carried out on clinical specimens to obtain information about the health of a patient to aid in diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.