Turnkey Physician-Owned Lab Setup
Clinical Operational Benefit of Owner Operated Labs
Physician-owned labs let you reclaim diagnostic control, increase revenue, and enhance care quality. Options for hosted or in-house PCR, toxicology, pharmacogenetics & blood panel testing.
Complete End to End Turn-key Lab Set-up
For Physicians, Clinics & Hospitals
Options Tailored to Demand
Our Turnkey Physician owned lab setup empowers practices to reclaim diagnostic control and revenue. We provide an end-to-end solution, acting as your liaison from design to go-live. Every high complexity physician owned labs setups we create includes—CLIA/COLA licensing, staffing, validation, LIS/EHR integration. Our late build out teams efficiently execute everything necessary to bring you a profitable and compliant physician owned lab in 6-8 weeks. When you work with KOSMD Consulting, you’re not just getting a lab—you’re getting a partner committed to reliability, revenue growth, and a solution that evolves with your practice.
Cutting-Edge Technologies Driving Operational Excellence
Why Work with KOSMD Consulting?
With over a decade of experience in turnkey physician-owned lab setups, we bring not just technical expertise, but the judgment and strategic insight to match your practice with the right team and the right build-out model. Be it a PCR Lab or a Toxicology lab buildout, every practice has unique needs—our role is to ensure your lab is designed exactly for yours, whether you want maximum ownership, shared risk, or hosted solutions with seamless expansion opportunities down the line. We don’t push cookie-cutter setups. Instead, we evaluate your patient demographics, MAC coverage, and market demand to prioritize what drives the greatest ROI—both immediately and in the long run. From the first design sketch to the day you run your first test, we manage every detail: licensure, staffing, validation, training, and compliance. The result? A fully operational lab in as little as 6–8 weeks, tailored to your goals and built for financial durability.
Why Consider having a Physical Owned lab?
Faster Results for Patients
Higher Diagnostic Accuracy
In-office testing delivers results in 2–4 hours versus 5 days.
Validated specificity and sensitivity >99%.
Capture Reimbursement
In-network Billing
Retain revenue that would otherwise go to outside labs.
Patient’s are billed “In-network” when the PCP is “In-network”
Live Validation
Expert Guidance
On-site, pathogen-specific validation with >99% accuracy.
We act as your liaison and bring a team with > 25 years lab build out experience
Local Antibiotic Resistance Profiles
Customization
Bacterial resistance is based on local & regional pathogen resistance.
Built to scale with options for on-site, hosted, PCR, Toxicology, etc.
Seamless EHR Lab Integrated System
On-site OR Hosted
Set-up in days with the most transparent, robust & operator friendly system
Depending on State, regional MAC, provider preference, the lab can be designed according to need with the option to scale.
Implementation Timeline
Week 1
Week 2
Week 4-6
Needs assessment, space planning, CLIA application.
Equipment acquisition, staffing, training.
Validation, testing, LIS integration, go-live.
Lab Model Options
In-house Fully Owned Labs
- Highest ROI
- Section 179 Deduction
- Full Control of staff & operation
- Predictable monthly service model
Hosted/Remote Owned Labs
- Excellent ROI, Zero capital invitent
- No need to hire or manage staff
- Predictable monthly cost via revenue sharing/fixed margin
Lab Types We Build
PCR Labs
Toxicology Labs
Pharmacogenetics
- Respiratory
- Covid
- Urinary
- Sexually Transmitted Disease
- Gastro-intestinal
- Nail Fungal
- Urine Drug Screens
- GC/MS (Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry
- LC/MS (Liquid Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry
- Quantification & Specific ID
- Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS)
👩⚕️ Owning Your Own Lab is Ideal For:
- Private practices or multispecialty clinics
- Reference labs seeking overflow capacity
- Management service organizations (MSOs)
- Collection centers expanding services
The ideal lab model is depends on a number of factors including the physician’s/entity’s regional determinations according to their MAC, the volume of testing and the types of testing that need to be done. With consultation we gather all the critical information to determine the best way to proceed to ensure timely resulting of labs and appropriate reimbursement.
Staffing Strategy:
PCR Lab Staffing Requirements:
With fully owned labs, the owner hires & manages all employees. Whereas with hosted labs , all the hiring & management of employees is done for the owner.
- Lab Director
- General Supervisor
- Technical Supervisor
- Medical Lab Technicians as needed
- One technitian/86 samples/8 hour shifts
Space Planning (At-a-Glance)
We size your lab to volume and workflow. Typical PCR layouts start at a single 10′×12′ room and scale to 500–750 sq ft for higher throughput.
| Test Volume/Day | Recommended Space |
|---|---|
| < 50/day | 10′ x 12′ room |
| 50–150/day | ≥ 500 sq. ft |
| > 150/day | ≥ 750 sq. ft (multi-room OK) |
