Medical Laboratory Scientists (ASCP)
64How will Obama's Health Care Plan affect Medical Laboratory Scientists?
I've been having trouble figuring this one out. Over the last 30 years that I've been in health care, we've been through fee for service, diagnosis related groups, and CPT codes with insurance constraints. Each time seems to get a little worse for the lab. Yet overall, the laboratory is still a money making endeavor for the health care industry.
If Obama's plan is adopted, we may see more quantity orders as more people will be covered for health care. I can't see that as a bad thing. I'm sure that payments/reimbursement may decrease per test, but we will be doing more tests. The more things change, the more they stay the same!
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See results without votingWhy don't Med Techs promote themselves more?
Medical Laboratory Scientists are the invisible profession. Most labs are tucked away in a basement or in somewindoless corner of a medical center. Yet we are one of the most used departments of a health care team.
Techs generally like to stay in their cubby holes and never interact with anything other than machines, test tubes, and specimens. This is probably the main reason we are relegated to the netherworld of health care careers. We really need to get out more and promote ourselves and what we do.
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NCA and ASCP have merged! We are now called Medical Laboratory Scientists and we should be proud of our health career. Let's show the world that we are NOT Nurses! Formerly known as MT, MLT, CLS, CLT.
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