Laboratory Assistant Hospital - Birmingham, Alabama
American Esoteric Laboratories
- Birmingham, AL
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Receives, verifies, logs, and collects patient requisitions and specimens for technical testing.
- Opens and inspects all specimens to assure an accurate specimen count.
- Verifies patient requisitions for completeness of patient, client, and insurance information.
- Prepares and sorts patient requisitions, and identifies and interprets data to be entered into the information system.
- Follows proper procedures with specimen rejection, if patient, client, and insurance information is submitted incorrectly on source.
- Enters alphabetic, numeric, or symbolic data from patient requisitions, face sheets, or photocopy of patients’ insurance card, into the information system following format displayed on screen. May enter:
- Client information (group name, referring physician, copy to physician, address, and phone and fax number)
- Patient’s demographics (patient name, address, phone number, date of birth, social security number, gender, medical record number, and electronic medical record number)
- Clinical history (past/present medical conditions, specifics of medical diagnosis or tests, treatment plans, family history, type of service, services received, dates of service, and provider of service)
- Specimen gross description (size, shape, type of specimen, and gross code)
- Billing type (client, patient, insurance, no charge)
- Patient insurance information (insurance code, carrier name, policy number, group number, and address of insurance carrier)
- Reviews data entered with source documents and/or error reports and enters necessary corrections into the information system.
- May label requisitions, specimen containers, cassettes and/or slides and affixes coverslip to slides.
- Routes patient requisitions after entry.
- HS Diploma or equivalent.
- State licensure, if applicable.
- 1 year of practical laboratory experience preferred.