What is CLIA compliance
really costing your laboratory?
Compare the cost of hiring, assigning current staff, or using an outside consultant with a tailored Creative Concepts Consulting program. Adjust every assumption. See both the potential financial impact and the staff capacity you could reclaim.
Your laboratory. Your numbers. Your decision.
Start with an illustrative example, then replace the figures with your own estimates. All calculations happen in your browser. This page doesn't collect or submit your financial inputs.
Choose what you're comparing
Pick the situation closest to your laboratory today.
Compare a planned additional hire with outsourcing a defined portion of the workload.
Tell us about your labor costs
Use actual salary figures when available. Paid time off is handled through productive hours, not added twice.
Estimate a consulting program
Illustrative service rates only. Actual pricing and scope are confirmed in a proposal.
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Important assumptions and limitations
These are adjustable, illustrative planning calculations, not a quote, wage survey or guarantee of savings. Compare only equivalent, realistically transferable work. A consultant does not automatically replace a full-time employee, a required laboratory position, laboratory director oversight, QC/PT obligations, clinical judgment or documentation responsibilities. The annual economic comparison assigns value to productive staff hours even when those salaries remain paid. Only cash expenses actually avoided count as net cash savings.
The model excludes fines, patient harm, speculative revenue, and hypothetical inspection penalties. Benefits and payroll tax entries are additional to salary; paid leave lowers productive annual hours rather than increasing salary costs. First-year impact includes one-time hiring costs avoided in the new-hire scenario and any consulting setup costs entered. Confirm your final scope, charges, travel and any retained staff requirements in a written agreement.