Lab Registrar

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Lab Administration
Full Time
PM Shift
12:30pm - 2100

Lexington Health is a comprehensive network of care that includes six community medical and urgent care centers, nearly 80 physician practices, more than 9,000 health care professionals and Lexington Medical Center, a 607-bed teaching hospital in West Columbia, South Carolina. It was selected by Modern Healthcare as one of the Best Places to Work in Healthcare and was first in the state to achieve Magnet with Distinction status for excellence in nursing care.

Consistently ranked as best in the Columbia Metro area by U.S. News & World Report, Lexington Health delivers more than 4,000 babies each year, performs more than 34,000 surgeries annually and is the region s third largest employer.

Lexington Health also includes an accredited Cancer Center of Excellence, the state’s first Heart

CARE Center, the largest skilled nursing facility in the Carolinas, and an Alzheimer’s care center. Its postgraduate medical education programs include family medicine and transitional year residencies, as well as an informatics fellowship.

Greets patients and clients who present themselves for services at LMC (Outpatients, Clients, Autologous donors, ER Drug Screens, Occupational Health, Health Reach, Pathology, Medical Day Care, Interview and Assessment). Provides excellent customer service while registering and ordering Laboratory procedures as requested. Obtains all necessary demographic and financial information to complete the registration process to ensure legal and accurate billing and medical records input.

Interprets Physician s orders. Collects urine specimens in accordance with procedures established by federal guidelines, including Department of Transportation. Collects payments for services rendered. Instructs patients in the proper collection of Semen, Sputum, Stool, and Urine. Assists Pathologist, and/or Medical Technologist in specimen collection procedures. Serves as liaison between patient, family representative, physician, client and LMC personnel.

Minimum Education: High School Diploma or Equivalent
Minimum Years of

Experience:

6 Months of experience at the Laboratory Clerical Assistant level or equivalent customer service related experience to become proficient with duties and responsibilities of the position.
Substitutable

Education & Experience:

None
Required Certifications/Licensure: None
Required Training: None

Knowledge and Expertise
: 65%

• Receives specimens from technicians, couriers, physicians, outpatients etc. and enters (or locates existing) orders in the L.I.S.
• Maintains complete working knowledge of and follows policies and procedures pertaining to Meditech. Accurately enters billing and insurance data from outside accounts into Meditech Information System.
• Responsible for delivering high quality service for all inquiries (in-house, and outside clients/physicians). This involves giving out test results and alert values to physicians or their appropriate representative, canceling tests, requesting additional data for completion of testing, investigating new or unusual test requests.
• Controls base station for the procurement radio dispatch system. Monitors the stat label printer and dispatches technicians in the most expedient manner possible. Assures that urgent and stat specimens are collected in a timely fashion. Obtains back-up help for technicians when necessary.
• Assist with training and orientation of new employees and students
• Stays abreast of all policy and procedural changes.
• Works assigned hours which are set to meet the need of the department. Assigned hours/shifts include:
  First shift, Second shift, week-ends, and holidays.
• Locates laboratory orders in the interface (OER) and modifies collection time/date and specimen type, Labels specimens and delivers to appropriate laboratory section.
• Prepares, processes, and stores biologically hazardous specimens in the pre-analytical stages for processing and or storage.
• Collects urine specimens in accordance with procedures established by the Department of Health & Human Services & the Department of…