Professional Resources
As a valued partner, you have our professional resources at your fingertips to help you. We are grateful to serve the many healthcare professionals who put their trust in Carter BloodCare every day.
Medical Minds Blog
Keep up-to-date with relevant news and expert opinions curated for blood bank medical directors, transfusing physicians and laboratory professionals. Our Medical Minds blog features important transfusion and blood bank information for you, our customers and our colleagues. We hope you will share this resource with others who may be interested in the work we do together.
Speakers
Our medical directors and executive leaders routinely serve as speakers for local, regional and national conferences, as well as community-focused educational events about blood donation and the field of blood banking.
Please contact our Hospital Relations team with your specific speaking engagement request.
Medical and Technical Consultations
Carter BloodCare’s clinical services are supported by 24/7 consultation with physicians who are board certified and/or fellowship trained in blood banking and transfusion medicine. Our MDs provide medical and scientific expertise in donor eligibility and deferral, donor reactions, infectious disease testing, stem cell collection, storage and processing and centralized hospital transfusion services.
In-services
Carter BloodCare physicians and staff are prepared to offer continuous medical and technical education needs with complimentary blood banking presentations. Presentations can be tailored to meet the needs of a particular audience, or to reflect a particular emphasis. Information may also be provided to help clients prepare for their own presentations.
Presentations offered:
Business Development
Reimbursement Review - Review the billing guidance with laboratory management and representatives from the hospital business office. Additionally, Carter BloodCare will review the transfusion service charge master and make recommendations based on the published billing guidance. For more information, please contact the Vice President of Operations & Information Services.
Clinical Apheresis Department
Therapeutic Apheresis
Stem Cell Collections
Hospital Relations Department
Carter BloodCare Customer Service Manual
ISBT 128 Labeling Symbology
Comprehensive Services
Basics of Blood Banking
Antibody Resolutions
Medical Services Department
Nursing Staff:
Recognition and management of transfusion reactions
Guidelines on blood administration
Hospital Medical Staff:
Noninfectious adverse effects of transfusion
Current risk of transfusion-transmitted infections
Answering patient’s questions about the blood donation and testing process
Blood utilization review (guidelines for component use)
Autologous and Restricted blood donations
Therapeutic apheresis methods and indications
Lookback issues and management
Other specialized in-services can be discussed at your request. In-Services can be scheduled with the offering departments listed. For Business Development, Clinical Apheresis, Hospital Relations, and Medical Services, these in-services can be presented at your facility.
Hospital Relations
The Hospital Relations team at Carter BloodCare serves as the lifeline between your healthcare facility and our services. We are keenly focused on your needs – from administrative to clinical and everything in between.
It is our goal to continuously meet and exceed your expectations. Our focus is continually improving the quality of services we deliver at every step of the process. You have a dedicated client relations team that is indebted for your trust and promises to handle it with care.
CPT and HCPCS Codes
As a service to our customers, Carter BloodCare experts offer consultations to address your questions regarding coding and billing of blood products and transfusion services reimbursable under the Medicare program.
AABB also offers a complimentary Billing Guide for Blood Products and Related Services for download. The guide’s intent is to assist hospitals, clinicians, billing and coding professionals involved with the billing of services and procedures associated with the use of blood and transfusion.
*All of the above services do not provide any guarantees of reimbursement.
Disaster Preparedness and Response Plan for Hospitals
In a disaster or emergency situation, Carter BloodCare intends to conduct business as usual to the greatest extent possible. However, some circumstances may require us to invoke contingency plans, including modified shipping schedules. Our goal is to meet the needs of patients by maintaining adequate inventories at all times and providing real-time inventory and distribution management in response to an emergency.
