Joining PLUGS indicates your commitment to patient safety and your pledge to reducing financial waste for your lab and your patients. Download the PLUGS Introduction Slide Deck.
Check out the PLUGS 2024 Year in Review, which highlights activities from the past year and summarizes available member resources.
Membership Levels
PLUGS® Membership
$5,900
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
$14,250
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.
