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    Textbook of Urgent Care Management: Chapter 31, Laboratory Overview
    Textbook of Urgent Care Management: Chapter 31, Laboratory Overview
    Textbook of Urgent Care Management: Chapter 31, Laboratory Overview
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    Textbook of Urgent Care Management: Chapter 31, Laboratory Overview

    By Tracy Patterson

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    The Textbook of Urgent Care Management is now offering individual chapters for sale. The full book, provides an expert business consulting guide to potential or existing urgent care clinic owners, managers & operators as well as investors. Learn how to more effectively run your immediate care or walk-in center as well as start incorporating urgent care services into your existing primary care practice. The chapters cover valuable information from industry experts on how to start, manage, and even sell your urgent care center.

    Chapter 31 includes:

    - Clinical Laboratory Improvements Amendments
    - Certificate Types Under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments
    - Surveys
    - Certification Costs
    - Testing
    - Waived Testing
    - Provider-performed Microscopy
    - Nonwaived Testing, Moderate
    - The Need for and Cost of Laboratory Testing
    - How to Get Started
    - Conclusion
    - Key Points
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateMar 15, 2014
    ISBN9781940288659
    Textbook of Urgent Care Management: Chapter 31, Laboratory Overview

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      Textbook of Urgent Care Management - Tracy Patterson

      CHAPTER 31

      Laboratory Overview

      Tracy Patterson

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      CHAPTER 31

      Laboratory Overview

      Tracy Patterson

      ON-SITE LABORATORY TESTING is frequently performed in urgent care centers and physician offices. Same-day testing during the patient visit can improve the care the patient receives and enhance the patient experience. Which tests the urgent care center performs should be determined by the needs of its patients and the effect the tests will have on patient care. Laboratory test regulations vary greatly, as do the costs associated with performing them, so careful planning is needed. Understanding the need (demand) for a test, how the test is regulated, and the total costs to perform the test is necessary to determine which laboratory tests the urgent care center will undertake.

      The information in this chapter about Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regulation is a summary. It does not include all regulations and requirements. Every state has an office for laboratory licensing and regulation. Requirements can vary, and states can impose separate licensing requirements and stricter guidelines than the federal government. State requirements are not explored in this

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