Laboratory Services
Emory University Student Health Services (EUSHS) has limited on-site laboratory services (CLIA-waived testing) including urinalysis, rapid strept testing, rapid mononucleosis testing, rapid influenza testing, urine pregnancy testing, stool occult blood testing and others. All on-site lab tests are offered on a fee-for-service basis. We also send-out laboratory testing to Emory Medical Laboratories on a fee-for-service basis. Billing for these tests is done by EUSHS. We prefer payment at the time of service and accept cash, checks, EmoryCard, Visa and MasterCard. EUSHS also participates in the Emory/Aetna student health insurance plan. We are non-participants in all other plans. However, we will file for any charges incurred at EUSHS with the patient’s primary insurance carrier. Since we are non-participants, it is possible that your carrier may not pay for these charges. We will also provide our patients with copies of all relevant paperwork needed to resolve any payment issues with the insurance carrier. We will wait 90 days from the date of filing the claim to receive payment. If the charges are unpaid at that time, we will transfer the balance to the Bursar’s office for billing on the student’s account.
Effective Fall Semester 2005, EUSHS will not be drawing/collecting laboratory tests for outside or non-EUSHS physicians whose offices are located in the metro Atlanta area, including physicians in The Emory Clinic. We strongly believe that the ordering physician should order his/her own laboratory tests on his/her patient and be responsible for the results, whether normal or abnormal. However, we will continue to draw/collect laboratory tests for physicians outside metro Atlanta as a courtesy to our students, since those students would be unable to go to a local physician's office to have the blood drawn.
|
|
|
