Why physicians choose MEDLAB
MEDLAB has been providing quality clinical laboratory services for over 60 years. Our employees are consistently committed to delivering accessible, comprehensive, quality laboratory services in a timely manner for all patients.
• 24-hour reporting on routine tests
• Electronic reporting directly to office or EMR
• STAT testing available along with STAT courier service
• Pathologists available for consultation and review of results
• Convenient locations for patients
• Specially trained courier staff assures control of specimen pick-up and report delivery.
• Experienced client service representatives available to handle your questions about testing and billing.
Long Term Care and Home Health Care Services
Our employees are consistently committed to delivering accessible, comprehensive, quality laboratory services in a timely manner for all patients. Our nursing home and home health care services are an important part of that commitment.
• Daily venipuncture
• STAT venipuncture and pick-ups
• Daily specimen pick-up
• Inservices upon request
• Monthly infection control reports
• On-site printing or daily delivery of lab results
• Exposure incident testing for employees
• Laboratory representation at Quality Assurance meetings
• 24-hour availability of information from laboratory staff
• 24-hour availability of results by phone
• Familiar, long-standing, professional relationship with area physicians
• Participation in employee health fairs
• Venipunctures performed at homebound patient homes
• On-site printing and faxing of reports
• 24-hour availability of results by phone
• 24-hour availibility of information from laboratory staff
• Several convenient locations for patient specimen drop-off
• Familiar, long-standing, professional relationship with area physicians
• Inservices available for the nursing staff on laboratory procedures and venipuncture
When you choose MEDLAB as your laboratory provider, you can be assured of our commitment to quality, accessibility and patient service.
Wise choices for employee health care
Don't compromise your employees'health care to save a few pennies. Negotiating an employee health care plan is a very complex issue. Often your decision comes down to the bottom line cost. But have you asked all the questions, and are you satisfied with the answers?
Learn more about the advantages of using MEDLAB...
It's become a common practice for HMOs, PPOs and other health plans to "carve out" laboratory services. This means that while all other health care providers offered by the plan are local, lab tests must be sent to a large-volume commercial lab out of town. This practice may have a small influence on the bottom line cost of the plan, but it can result in a reduction in medical care for your employees and hidden costs for you.
An out-of-town lab provider:
• Can be less convenient, and time consuming, for your employees if it means they have to go out of town to have specimens drawn for testing.
• Can lengthen the amount of time it takes to receive the results and start treatment.
• Can compromise the integrity of the specimen if it travels long distances in varying conditions, and this can make time-consuming re-testing necessary.
• Can make it difficult, even impossible, for your employee or his doctor to reach a pathologist for consultation if there are questions about the results.
• The longer your employees or their dependents wait for lab results, the longer they will be away from the job. And isn't that just what you're trying to avoid? Lab work is less than 6 to 7% of the overall cost of health care, so in reality, the few pennies you save using an out-of-town lab may be offset by the time lost while your employee waits for lab results.
