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Delivering Temperature Sensitive Medical Goods

When you use a New Jersey courier service to deliver goods that degrade in the presence of higher temperatures, such as medical material or pharmaceutical products, then you need to take a number of precautions to ensure that those products don’t get damaged while in transit. Medical material becomes damaged very easily if its temperature gets above its ideal storage temperature. Therefore, you need to take steps to make sure that never happens while those goods are in transit.

The first thing that you should do when shipping medical goods is make sure that you’re shipping them with the best possible courier. In order to move medical material at all, a courier is going to need to have certain types of permits and licenses, as well as all the required equipment. Ideally, they should have the means to transport medical material while cooling it in a number of different ways. This is because for different types of material, different cooling methods are going to be better for them. If you need to ship a variety of medical materials in your day to day business, then you should make sure the courier company has access to all the different cooling methods that you require.

The next thing that you need to worry about is the packaging of the goods. This is one of the most important parts of any shipment that is sensitive to temperature, because all goods are going to have to spend at least short periods of time outside of a perfectly temperature controlled environment. In order to fight this problem, you need to make sure that your packages are all very well insulated. When everything is well insulated, even if the most delicate package spends a short amount of time outside in the hot air it should not become irrevocably damaged.

The packages also need to be rugged and durable. Although couriers are going to be as careful as they can with these types of packages, there is no avoiding the fact that accidents happen. If a courier should drop a package, or be in an accident in the courier vehicle, you need the packages to be strong enough to stand up to a jolt without popping open. If they do, all your insulation will be completely ineffective, and you will end up with medical material that is completely ruined. Break proof plastic or foam that is sealed well make good choices for outer packaging that will stand up to impacts.

Everette is a consultant for new jersey courier service and new jersey trucking company companies as well as national courier service businesses.

Billing Ultrasound Not Done by Delivering Doctor

I have a patient who had an ultrasound done at a doctor’s office before transferring to the delivering doctor. The delivering doctor didn’t do an ultrasound once she transferred to that doctor. This is a global package for delivery, anesthesia, office visit and lab work all done by the delivering doctor. Can the ultrasound not done by the delivering doctor be billed under his global?

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Delivering the Results of Imaging Examinations Can Improve Patients’ View of Radiologists

The new healthcare economy is redefining many working relationships that have remained unchanged for years. As a prime example, radiologists are understandably concerned about becoming viewed as commodities rather than as physicians who fill a vital role in patient care. One way for them to escape this stereotype is to have more direct interaction with patients, which will also simultaneously achieve one of the goals of the American College of Radiology’s (ACR) Imaging 3.0 initiative – to provide patient-centered, value-based care.


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