Comparing nonphysician and physician laboratory administrative responsibilities.

When the ASMT Board of Directors approved the conduct of a new laboratory management survey, they believed that the data from the survey would have value to the Society and its constituents. Indeed, it did. These data illustrated to federal health policy makers just how much of a role nonphysician clinical laboratory practitioners play in laboratory administration and day-to-day management. The results of this survey were extremely valuable to ASMT during recent federal regulatory and legal proceedings regarding the role of clinical laboratory scientists in laboratory services delivery and medicare payment policy for hospital clinical laboratory services.