This version of the podcast was recorded live at the PLUGS Summit in Seattle Washington on April 4, 2025.  As part of the Summit, we invited attendees to a PLUGS podcast recording on the second day of the Summit.  The goal was to discuss issues raised at the Summit and answer questions from attendees. Our discussion covered a range of topics including fraud and other causes of egregious overutilization; maintaining the lab’s agency within a healthcare system; the good and evil of free testing; reference lab relationships; and hard and soft ways of enforcing stewardship policies.  I was helped, as usual, by my colleague and stewardship expert, Dr. Geoff Baird, Chair of the University of Washington Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology.   

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