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Case Studies

Securing Resources for Outreach Growth: How ARUP Healthcare Advisory Services Helped a Health System Build a Case for Investment
An academic health system turned to ARUP consultants to help it evaluate the market potential for its highly specialized testing and assess its outreach infrastructure.
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How ARUP Consultants Helped a Growing Health System Achieve Test Alignment and Consolidation
After acquiring four community hospitals, UCI Health worked with ARUP to perform test matching, alignment, and consolidation to help integrate the hospitals into a single, connected system.
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How ARUP Laboratories Helped a Hospital Achieve Isolation Room Length-of-Stay Reductions
M Health Fairview St. John’s Hospital sees high demand for its isolation rooms. The hospital turned to ARUP for help shortening its isolation room lengths-of-stay to serve more patients and save costs.
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How a Genomics Laboratory Decreased Turnaround Time by 5 Days Through a Workflow Assessment
With the help of ARUP experts, a molecular and genomics laboratories division reduced turnaround times and recaptured test leakage.
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How ARUP Experts Helped a Rehabilitation Center’s Laboratory Overcome Challenges Noted in a Joint Commission Inspection
ARUP helped a rehabilitation center reevaluate its laboratory operations to address challenges noted in an inspection. As a result, the center saw a 27% savings potential, for a five-year savings of $1.9 million.
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How ARUP Healthcare Advisory Services Helped a Client Adjust to Unexpected Order Volumes and Prepare for Future Growth
A large academic-based health system sought ARUP’s expertise in managing the challenges that came with a sudden, unexpected influx of outreach testing.
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How One Academic Health System Saved $1.5M in Remodeling Costs Through an Infrastructure Assessment
ARUP Healthcare Advisory Services developed a plan that would allow a health system to accommodate growth through a phased approach that would save $1.5 million in remodeling costs overall.
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How Tucson Medical Center Reclaimed a Revenue Stream With the Help of ARUP Healthcare Advisory Services
More than a decade after selling its outreach laboratory business, Tucson Medical Center worked with ARUP to rebuild its outreach operations and reclaim about $2 million in annual net profit.
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White Papers

The Hidden Costs of Outsourcing Clinical Laboratory Functions
Calculating the total costs of outsourcing to derive the most value for the health system.
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Navigating AI in the Clinical Laboratory: Key Considerations
ARUP experts provide a thoughtful framework for evaluating artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for the laboratory. 
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Magnify Articles

ARUP Healthcare Advisory Services Helps Growing Health Systems Integrate and Optimize Laboratory Services
The goal of system laboratory alignment efforts is to integrate laboratory services across the entire health system to improve efficiency, save money, and support patient care. 
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How ARUP Healthcare Advisory Services Helped Fairview Health Services Build a Robust Laboratory Stewardship Program
Fairview Health Services partnered with ARUP to establish a dynamic, effective laboratory stewardship committee and provide an integrated data source to inform and benchmark the committee’s efforts.
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UC Davis Health Consultation Leads to Improved Staffing, Faster Turnaround Times
ARUP Healthcare Advisory Services helped UC Davis Health get to the root causes of its lengthening turnaround times.
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True Lab Stewardship Embraces Patient Access to Testing, Financial Fairness
Laboratories have a responsibility to ensure that patient testing is ethical and responsible. Expanding laboratory stewardship programs to address issues such as financial fairness and access to testing is an important step toward more patient-centered laboratory medicine.
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