Spectra Laboratories provides managed care organizations with the individualized, integrated services they need to overcome the major challenges facing the industry today: monitoring provider performance, optimizing patient outcomes and curbing overall costs.

Containing escalating costs for commercial payors

At Spectra, we understand the sizable financial challenges facing the managed care industry. The average dialysis patient incurs healthcare costs of $62,000 per year,* making ESRD the single most expensive disease to manage.


*HFCA 1996

How we can help

By providing adequate dialysis treatment and monitoring key clinical indicators of dialysis quality, providers may be able to reduce morbidity by 30 percent and decrease mortality by more than 35 percent. To achieve this goal, dialysis patients require the services of a reliable renal laboratory that delivers renal-specific reference ranges, calculations and reporting.

Spectra Laboratories delivers testing, analysis and reporting with the accuracy, efficiency and flexible service clinicians require:

  • Renal-specific tests spanning a wide range of specialties, including Microbiology and Water & Dialysate testing
  • Complete menu of renal-specific calculations based upon National Kidney Foundation published standards
  • State-of-the-art instrumentation automates the processing of specimens
  • Extensive reviews are conducted for all laboratory results to ensure accuracy
  • Multi-regional courier network ensures prompt shipment of specimens
  • Comprehensive training and on-going support by Certified Nephrology Nurses, Renal Dietitians and Dialysis Technicians

Empowering network providers to make faster, more efficient decisions

Spectra's Web-based data management solution, Averity, helps providers assess and take action rapidly to support optimal patient care.

  • Diagnosis-driven test ordering assures better compliance with HEDIS and other quality program reporting requirements
  • Immediate access to test results, including abnormal test values
  • Patient-centric, diagnosis-specific, longitudinal results data and provider demographics
  • Historical test results for instant graphing

For more information on Spectra's Managed Care Program, please contact us at 800-433-3773 ext. 4005.