Direct Access Lab Testing For the Uninsured

Direct Access Testing is now a real thing in America and a fabulous advancement in the ability of the patient to take control of their wellness plan.

If your doctor’s waiting room is overcrowded and you have to wait too long for a simple check-up, why not take some measures to help determine your level of health between office visits.

Millions of people visit physicians and hospitals each year for wellness check-ups as well as for help with various health concerns. Most doctors will order blood work to help them determine any possible imbalances or pertinent disease markers and risk analysis. The blood work-up fees are often extremely high due to the involvement of insurance companies and their rates. Sadly, physician offices and hospital overhead plays a role in the cost of these laboratory tests. Doctors certainly have to pay their assistants and support staff, the rent, and utilities and huge malpractice insurance rates, to name a few operational costs. Because of these high overheads they most often pass along a margin of profit that includes all of their daily expenses by percentages.

Due to rising insurance rates and co-pay programs, many patients are paying higher fees out of pocket. These higher fees often keep patients from visiting their doctor’s offices as often as they might like. Because of the fact that less people are regularly seeing their family doctors, more people inadvertently are developing conditions that go undiagnosed. Blood tests are showing that if a person had come in months earlier a disease state may have been prevented. There are now alternative ways for the average person with or without insurance to find out their personal level of health.

Some patients wait two hours for a ten minute office visit, only to hear, we will draw some blood and see what the lab has to say. We take the wait out. You decide when you want to stop in and have your blood drawn and results can be immediate, with enough information to help the you understand the results.

If you wish to have a common CBC panel, or some other type of tests to help determine if you are suffering from diabetes, anemia, allergies, a hormone imbalance, ulcers, infection, stress, prostate concerns, mononucleosis, cardiac panel, nutritional deficiencies, thyroid disease, how your liver, gallbladder, digestion are, or if you are a candidate for cancer, HIV, Hepatitis, or other diseases, you can visit one of our convenient labs to schedule a simple blood draw. If you just want a Wellness Analysis you can have that too.

Some tests are available as Home Tests and can be done in the comfort of your own home quickly and easily. You have the choice to involve your family medical doctor or to ask questions of the medical doctors who work at the laboratories. They will gladly explain the findings and encourage you to seek medical assistance if necessary.

A very cost effective service is found at www.MyLabServices.com. We are sure you will find the process easy, convenient and affordable. Just follow the links to the test you are looking for, if you have any questions you can call them at 727-738-0439.

Another Interesting Point To Consider:

Online lab tests do not have to become part of your permanent medical record like physician-ordered tests, which follow you when you apply for a new job, seek to obtain employee health benefits, or shop for life insurance.

Lower Risk When Expanding Business

Recently I decided to expand both my customer service platform and the marketing efforts with one main goal in mind to increase our customer service, and as a secondary goal, to create more future business which would lead to higher profits. In today’s economic climate I am still unsure about expanding my business with long-term fixed costs. I have been left several times with unused office space and cubical full of equipment and phones set up for previous contracts that are now canceled. One way of expanding while minimizing exposure, is to eliminate certain expenses traditionally associated with growth that in effect reduce risk and help bolster gross margins. After researching my options about standard office expansion and investing in the phones and computers necessary to complete the infrastructure for that expansion, I decided to fall back on an old business model that I use to use years ago with a little twist. Back in early 1990 I started developing the executive office concept for specific businesses, attorneys, realtors, and doctors. Technology was not what it was today but we had common access to phones, voice mail, internet, fax, and collaboration networking which was my biggest selling point at the time. With technology today we realized we could take that one step further and create a similar collaboration using the home office environment. In the early stages of this, as we were developing the idea, I had my IT expert go to CompUSA and purchased the parts to build a phone server, very simple and inexpensive. He researched the different option landing on free VOIP software program called Elastix. After the necessary configurations, we purchased inexpensive SNOM 360 phones, using IAX Extensions (used for enabling VoIP connections between servers) along with long distance through BinFone a telecom company. Now our new customer service, developers, and sales people are working from home with a multi-line business phone by their side. Each has an “inner office extension” just like as if they were at a physical office, we can transfer calls and voice mails just like we are next to we in the same office. My one concern was the ability to keep up that collaboration network you should experience within a traditional office or executive suite environment. I think this collaboration is critical if you want to keep ahead of the curve in business. Today, this connection and be can be, to a degree, maintained through the new social media platforms, as well as, implementing office virtualization, cloud computing, mobility transformation, live video, text chat, and webinars, gives us the ability to support that connection. From the phone system I can check their productivity through the operator panel in both software applications. I can see who is calling who and track expenses and bill so at a reduced cost of my office and overhead. It’s something to consider. We have online shared calendars, secure document sharing and live chat for questions on the fly when direction is needed. Taking this to the next level and developing a much more advanced phone solution we created a company called Curve Networks which offers an entire suite of business services platforms within a Tier-3, Tier-4, SAS-70 ll Certified Data Center. Whether it’s a traditional office, executive suite environment, or home office, we have quality and affordable solutions that are expandable worldwide. If you want to learn more or you have any questions please check us out at www.curvecloud.com and I welcome your reaction. My direct phone number to my desk is 727-388-9795.

Direct To The Public Medical Lab Testing

We have been working on updating out www.mylabservices.com website, and have added a SEARCH BAR that is very helpful when searching for a specific lab test. Our entire website has been updated and we are receiving positive reviews from it! MyLabServices.com offers direct to the public medical lab tests, STD tests and blood testing. These are the same clinical laboratory tests that doctors rely on to diagnose serious medical conditions and guide life-saving therapies. Our state-of-the-art blood tests, STD testing and other lab test services are confidential, convenient, and affordable.

The MyLabServices.com difference:

• Confidential: No doctor visit needed; we provide the lab order
• Convenient: Choose the lab location best for you…near home, near work, or one convenient during travel
• Affordable: No hidden charges, taxes, or draw fees for blood or other lab tests

Social Media Marketing

I think the thing I like most about implementing a SIM campaign is that your customer base wants to hear the pro’s and con’s of what you are offering. It’s just a great open way to test what you are offering and receive quick response. It reminds me of Bar Codes of all things. One business I have is selling Drug Testing Kits in a chain of convenience stores. I would take 6 months to figure out which ones really sold. With bar codes, the moment they buy at the register, I know what sold, the color of the box and where it was in the store. As a side note, I quit putting the kits in red boxes!