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Said: Yes, the billing and coding is another "monster" we have to challenge occasionally. Most of our operators at Urgent Cares, prefer to run two or three different instruments on a single patient (because they have a capacity), for example ...

Said: Erica, OH YES! We know how it is!I am not involved on the billing/charge capture side of POC test/resulting; however, since I report/work inside a non-lab department, I sometimes 'know more' on the billing/charge capture si...

Said: Hi Alexandr and Peggy,My Invalid Flu B results were in parallel with a negative Flu A using the sequential workflow process so maybe mine were due to a reagent or sample issue. My facility is definitely not running as many Abbott de...

Said: CarePoint Solutions (host of the Listserv) has two dogs in this fight...  1.)  CarePoint has a higher-metric QC formulation for the LeadCare II that we supply to federal proficiency testing orgs.  It would require...

Said: Your first comment stated "problems with the device", so maybe one solution would be to step up QC frequency?  Curious as to what adding proficiency testing would do for an analytical issue, that you couldn't accomplish by more fre...