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Pathology Referral Specialist - Houston, United States - MD Anderson Cancer Center

MD Anderson Cancer Center

Verified Company

Houston, United States

1 month ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

The hours are Monday - Friday 8:30am-5pm

The primary purpose of the Pathology Referral Specialist position is to coordinate tasks associated with creating, reviewing and assessing patient's outside pathology materials, determining sub-specialty and forwarding completed cases to appropriate pathologist.

JOB SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES

Organize and assimilate pathology case materials and paperwork Documents receipt of materials in Access database, updating information as pre-accession actions are taken.

Perform a thorough review of all associated paperwork (ie outside pathology report, outside billing information, request report translations as needed for international cases, in-house clinician orders for testing, commercial laboratory requisition, etc).

Determine additional materials, information or reports needed for processing and initiate action to request/obtain.

Compare materials/documents received against information in HIS, initiating communication to PAS to resolve discrepancies or to initiate financial clearance for marker testing.

Monitor worklists or queues to facilitate transfer to respective next departmental action Periodically review assigned pending cases to assure compliance with expected turn around time expectations for completion of task.

Document transfer of materials no longer needed for testing or diagnostic review to the Pathology File Room for archiving or return to home facility.

Other duties as assigned

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