Point of Care urine HCG or lab processed blood HCG

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I find this interesting, as all three of the test were considered  'waivered' 
tests under CLIA, and can be done in any clinic office with little or  no 
oversight. Add in the relatively inexpensive automated dipstick readers, and  
what this seems to be is a billing protection issue, not a 'patient  safety 
issue.' It's bad enough that some labs are trying to claim fingerstick  blood 
glucose measurements, but at least that requires periodic control  samples...with 
the modern urine hCG dipsticks, there is a built in control on  every test.
 
 
In a message dated 2/3/2009 13:12:16 Central Standard Time,  
brombwi1 at memorialhealth.com writes:

Our lab  has recently banned POC urine HCGs because they are "not
calibrated" — see  also POC urine dipsticks and Hemocrits

William J. Bromberg, MD,  FACS
Savannah Surgical Group
912  350-7412

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