Manchester, CT13 days ago
The Lab Aide reports to Laboratory Leadership and is responsible for patient registration, accessioning, requisition entry, specimen processing, customer service inquires, answering and directing telephone calls, registration and ICD-9 coding, problem solving, testing-to-billing-or-other patient investigations and all other front-end functions performed in laboratory receiving areas. Processes laboratory specimens by: examining the sample for proper collection criteria, verifying the patient demographic data (name, address, ID, physician, insurance information, etc.), entering the patient information into the LIS, or Reference Lab information system, centrifuging (where applicable), decanting, labeling and allocating of specimens to the various laboratory sections.