Laboratory Director – oversees day‑to‑day laboratory operations, ensures quality standards, and directs routine and complex analyses on clinical specimens.
Responsibilities
- Assess technical or instrument issues, including QC and abnormal findings, and select appropriate actions.
- Develop policies and procedures and supervise all laboratory personnel.
- Ensure compliance with Joint Commission and other accrediting body standards.
- Implement daily quality control measures to secure accurate patient results.
- Maintain current knowledge of clinical correlations, result interpretation, and laboratory procedures while pursuing continuing education.
- Maintain equipment, minimize downtime, and manage maintenance activities.
- Manage laboratory staff and departmental functions.
- Monitor vendor contracts and ensure all services comply with terms and proper charges are paid.
- Prepare specimens and perform routine and/or complex analyses using various instruments swiftly and efficiently.
- Coordinate concurrent tasks—including STAT orders and workload fluctuations—accurately.
- Plan, supervise, coordinate, and execute all departmental activities.
- Review all outgoing results, verify critical documentation and turnaround times, ensure billing accuracy (e.g., CBC, UA), correct billing errors, handle send‑out results, and verify proper coding.
- Review lab billing, compare LIS billing summaries to hospital charge journals, add necessary modifiers, verify 24‑hour urine measurement charges, and ensure date of collection matches billing date.
- Manage late charge reports, reduce problems leading to late charges, and issue credits for canceled or duplicate orders.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree (required).
- ASCP Medical Laboratory Scientist (MLS) certification.
- Eligibility for the Management Incentive Compensation program.
Compensation
Pay based on experience starting at $77,438.40, with an estimated range of $77,438.40 – $120,036.80.
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