Neway forms lab services pact with Quest Diagnostics

Dialysis lab care company Neway, LLC announced a strategic lab services arrangement with Quest Diagnostics that aims to accelerate dialysis laboratory testing and reduce the laboratory costs of dialysis programs for patients with end-stage renal disease. Under the terms of the agreement, Neway will utilize the extensive lab network of Quest Diagnostics to provide local dialysis laboratory testing services with typically next-day results after arrival at a Quest Diagnostics laboratory. The Neway-Quest collaboration will provide an alternative to the centralized lab model where the majority of dialysis programs in the U.S. transport specimens to a single laboratory for processing. By utilizing Quest’s distributed lab network, Neway and its affiliated dialysis centers and their patients will experience faster testing and results reporting and lower transportation costs.