Beyond the Swab: Making Smarter Testing Decisions

Choosing the right testing for your Urgent Care center isn’t always as straightforward as you may think. Our panel walks through different considerations including CLIA-waived, CLIA-moderate, the biggest mistakes operators make, barriers when considering different platforms, reimbursement, addressing clinician education and more.

Presented by The College of Urgent Care Medicine.

categories: For Operations Management, Webinars and Videos Tags antibiotic stewardship, Avoiding Common Testing Mistakes, Choosing the Right Test, CLIA Compliance, CLIA Moderate Complexity Testing, CLIA Waived Testing, Clinical Decision-Making, Clinical Excellence, Clinical Operations, Clinician Training, Cost Management, Diagnostic Accuracy, Diagnostic Economics, Diagnostic Efficiency, Diagnostic Stewardship, Evidence-Based Testing, Future of Diagnostic Testing, Improving Diagnostic Confidence, Laboratory Compliance, Laboratory Testing, Maximizing Your Testing Program, Molecular Testing, Patient Care Quality, Point-of-Care Testing (POCT), Practice Optimization, Provider Education, quality improvement, Reimbursement Strategies, revenue cycle, Smarter Testing Decisions, Staff Competency, Test Selection, Testing Best Practices, Testing Platform Selection, Testing Strategy for Urgent Care, Testing Utilization, Testing Workflow, Urgent Care Management, Urgent Care Testing, Workflow Optimization

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Contributor	College of Urgent Care Medicine
Publication Date	September 2026