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LabNetwork

A lab’s B2B clients and franchise centres: rate cards, credit, statements, TAT penalties, margin — and each franchise’s royalty and audit score.

Installs with LabBridge, whose screen it works on

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What it is

The lab’s business with other organisations, in one place. Each client — a hospital, a clinic, a nursing home, a company or one of your own collection-centre franchises — has a dated rate card (a price per test, or a % off your own tariff), a credit limit and payment terms. A test billed to a client comes off the patient’s bill and onto the client’s ledger at the price in force that day, and that price stays on the charge, so a later card never changes a past bill. A charge that would take a client past its limit is stopped unless the desk lets it through with a reason, which is kept. At month end the statement is built from the ledger itself, with a GST summary from your tariff’s own rates and codes, and goes to the client as a PDF and a link. Turnaround promises per test or department are checked against the lab’s own timestamps; late results become a proposed credit note a manager approves (what the catalog listed as TATPenalty). Franchise centres earn a commission on what they collect, paid on an approved monthly payout. The walk-in vs B2B view splits the month’s volume, revenue and — when MachineLog has the month’s costs — margin, lab by lab (what the catalog listed as WalkinVsB2B). Franchises: each franchise centre’s royalty at the percent its agreement sets, on the revenue it reports for an ended month, frozen when recorded and marked paid with a reference; and brand and SOP audits against the lab’s own checklist (none ships), every item answered, scored brand and SOP apart, with a falling brand score flagged — it reports, the franchisor decides. No doctor is ever a client: paying a doctor for referrals is cut practice under the NMC’s rules.

Who uses it: Built for: Every specialty
Reads: Lab orders and their timestamps, the lab’s tariff, tax rates and HSN/SAC codes, MachineLog’s monthly cost per test
Writes: Clients, rate cards, turnaround and commission rules, the client ledger: charges, payments and credit notes, monthly statements, franchise payouts and the client’s link
Never: It never takes a doctor as a client or pays anyone for a referral, never rewrites a charge when a rate card changes, never edits an issued statement, and never applies a penalty credit without a manager’s approval.
Access: Only people whose role includes it — the clinic owner decides who
Your data: PHI-lite. Hosted in Boston, United States. On uninstall: Client billing stops; new lab orders go on the patient’s bill again. Ledgers, statements and payouts are kept, and client links stop working.

How it works

Add the client and its rate cardType, credit limit, payment terms, a % off your tariff or a price per test, from a date. Collection centres get a commission rate.
Bill tests to the clientOrder for the client’s patient, or move an order already placed onto the client. Over the limit needs a reason.
Send the month’s statementFrom the 1st, make last month’s statement from the ledger and email the client its link and PDF.
Settle turnaround and commissionLate results become a proposed credit for a manager to approve; a franchise’s payout is worked out and approved the same way.

Rules it keeps

What it does not do, by design. A listing with only benefits is an advertisement.

It never takes a doctor as a client or pays anyone for a referral, never rewrites a charge when a rate card changes, never edits an issued statement, and never applies a penalty credit without a manager’s approval.

AI in LabNetwork

AskQuestions about what is on screen — “What needs attention in LabNetwork today?” — answered with the records it read.

DraftSummaries and notes for the team, marked as drafts until a person signs.

Every answer shows its sources. Nothing AI writes is saved until a person accepts it.

See it on screen

LabNetwork — Lab Network — Bill hospitals, clinics and franchise centres for lab tests, on credit — 01Lab Network — Bill hospitals, clinics and franchise centres for lab tests, on creditCaptured from the running demo clinic

01Lab Network — Bill hospitals, clinics and franchise centres for lab tests, on creditCaptured from the running demo clinic

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Connected to

Read out of the code, not the brochure: each app below is here because one service queries the other’s tables. Install either side and the hand-over is already wired.

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BillDesk HubRoute LabBridge MachineLog Patient Registry TaxBooks

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HubRoute

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Questions clinics ask

What does LabNetwork do?

A lab’s B2B clients and franchise centres: rate cards, credit, statements, TAT penalties, margin — and each franchise’s royalty and audit score. The lab’s business with other organisations, in one place. Each client — a hospital, a clinic, a nursing home, a company or one of your own collection-centre franchises — has a dated rate card (a price per test, or a % off your own tariff), a credit limit and payment terms. A test billed to a client comes off the patient’s bill and onto the client’s ledger at the price in force that day, and that price stays on the charge, so a later card never changes a past bill. A charge that would take a client past its limit is stopped unless the desk lets it through with a reason, which is kept. At month end the statement is built from the ledger itself, with a GST summary from your tariff’s own rates and codes, and goes to the client as a PDF and a link. Turnaround promises per test or department are checked against the lab’s own timestamps; late results become a proposed credit note a manager approves (what the catalog listed as TATPenalty). Franchise centres earn a commission on what they collect, paid on an approved monthly payout. The walk-in vs B2B view splits the month’s volume, revenue and — when MachineLog has the month’s costs — margin, lab by lab (what the catalog listed as WalkinVsB2B). Franchises: each franchise centre’s royalty at the percent its agreement sets, on the revenue it reports for an ended month, frozen when recorded and marked paid with a reference; and brand and SOP audits against the lab’s own checklist (none ships), every item answered, scored brand and SOP apart, with a falling brand score flagged — it reports, the franchisor decides. No doctor is ever a client: paying a doctor for referrals is cut practice under the NMC’s rules.

What data does LabNetwork read and write?

LabNetwork reads lab orders and their timestamps, the lab’s tariff, tax rates and HSN/SAC codes, MachineLog’s monthly cost per test and writes clients, rate cards, turnaround and commission rules, the client ledger: charges, payments and credit notes, monthly statements, franchise payouts and the client’s link. Its data class is PHI-lite. Every app works on the same patient record — nothing is copied into a silo.

What does LabNetwork deliberately not do?

What happens to our data if we uninstall LabNetwork?

Client billing stops; new lab orders go on the patient’s bill again. Ledgers, statements and payouts are kept, and client links stop working.

Is LabNetwork available today?

Yes — LabNetwork is live in clinics today. Set up your practice on MedAppz and install it from your dashboard.

Want to see LabNetwork running on your own patients?

Tell us what you run and we will show you this app inside a practice shaped like yours — or answer the question the page above did not.

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