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ACL Laboratories
Adventist Health
Aetna
Akron Children’s Hospital
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Arkansas Children’s Hospital
ARUP Laboratories
Avalon Healthcare Solutions
Baylor Genetics
Blue Shield of California
Boston Children’s Hospital
Bronson Methodist Hospital
CentraCare Health
Children’s Health
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Children’s Hospital Colorado
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin
Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota
Children’s National Health System
ChristianaCare
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Clarivate
Cleveland Clinic
Concert Genetics
Cone Health
Cook Children’s Medical Center
Dayton Children’s Hospital
East Tennessee Children’s Hospital
Fairview Health Services
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Froedtert Health
Geisinger
GeneDx/Sema4
Genetic Support Foundation
Global Genes
Guardant Health
Gundersen Health System
HealthPartners (Park Nicollet / Regions and Methodist Hospitals)
Highmark, Inc.
Illumina, Inc.
Intermountain Healthcare
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington
Kaiser Permanente – SCAL Region
Kaiser Permanente NW Regional Lab
Labcorp
LAC+USC Medical Center
Lahey Hospital and Medical Center
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
Legacy Health
Lifespan Academic Medical Centers
Lucent Diagnostics
Mayo Clinic Laboratories
MedStar Health
Metis Genetics
MultiCare Tacoma General Hospital
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children
New York Presbyterian Hospital
Nicklaus Children’s Hospital
NW Rare Disease Coalition
Ochsner Health System
Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU)
OU Health
Parkview Health
Phoenix Children’s Hospital
PreventionGenetics part of Exact Sciences
Providence Health & Services
Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center
Quest Diagnostics
Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine
Saint Francis Health System
Salem Health
Sanford Health
Southern Illinois Healthcare
SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital
SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital – Madison
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
St. Luke’s
Stanford Health Care
Texas Children’s Hospital
Thermo Fisher Scientific
TriCore Reference Laboratories
UCLA Health
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland
United HealthCare Services, Inc.
University of Florida Health
University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center
University of Miami
University of Michigan Health System
University of Missouri
University of North Carolina
University of Virginia School of Medicine
University of Washington
UW Health University Hospital
Valley Children’s Hospital
Versiti
Wake Forest Baptist Health
WellSpan York Hospital
Yale University – Lab Medicine
Membership Levels
PLUGS® Membership
$5,500
General Membership applies to hospital or commercial clinical labs, defined as a health care facility or practice that provides health care services and is involved in performing or ordering laboratory tests. An annual membership provides many member benefits.
Member Benefits
- Full Access to the member-only section of the PLUGS® website, which includes PLUGS® member directory, materials related to program development, PLUGS National Webinar Series, archived educational material, discussion forum, and policies/procedures/templates.
- Strategic Assessment of your current laboratory stewardship program with a customized 1-year work plan, and a dedicated PLUGS® account manager.
- Opportunity to participate in quarterly member meetings, highlighting stewardship topics presented by PLUGS® members.
- Opportunities to participate and contribute to PLUGS® committees (i.e., Insurance Alignment and Lab Informatics Tools committees).
- Weekly E-Newsletter and opportunity to contribute content.
- Registration discounts for the PLUGS® Summits and other events.
- Access to strategic partnership opportunities, including insurance/payor relationships, understanding of laboratory stewardship challenges from potential clients, and collaboration opportunities with other PLUGS® members on academic or educational opportunities (co-presentations, co-publications).
- Permission to display PLUGS® logo to recognize your affiliation with PLUGS and commitment to laboratory stewardship.
Corporate Membership
$13,500
Corporate Membership applies to non-laboratory organizations, defined as a health care company or practice that provides services or products to the health care industry. An annual membership provides many member benefits.
Member Benefits
- Full Access to the member-only section of the PLUGS® website, which includes PLUGS® member directory, materials related to program development, PLUGS National Webinar Series, archived educational material, discussion forum, and policies/procedures/templates.
- Strategic Assessment of your current laboratory stewardship program with a customized 1-year work plan, and a dedicated PLUGS® account manager.
- Opportunity to participate in quarterly member meetings, highlighting stewardship topics presented by PLUGS® members.
- Opportunities to participate and contribute to PLUGS® committees (i.e., Insurance Alignment and Lab Informatics Tools committees).
- Weekly E-Newsletter and opportunity to contribute content.
- Registration discounts for the PLUGS® Summits and other events.
- Access to strategic partnership opportunities, including insurance/payor relationships, understanding of laboratory stewardship challenges from potential clients, and collaboration opportunities with other PLUGS® members on academic or educational opportunities (co-presentations, co-publications).
- Permission to display PLUGS® logo to recognize your affiliation with PLUGS® and commitment to laboratory stewardship.