Why TMS
An Extension of Your Practice.
For more than 15 years, TMS has helped to make drug testing organized and simple through laboratory coordination, workflow implementation, LabSource technology, tracking and ongoing consultative support.
Your staff will appreciate the ease of ordering and receiving tests in a HIPPA compliant manner. Accurate and prompt test results.
The benefits are increased safety for your patients and reduced liability for your pratice.
Laboratory testing is performed by qualified laboratory partners. Clinical decisions remain with the treating provider.
Why Drug Test?Stays with the practice
- Clinical decisions
- Ordering judgment
- Patient relationship
- Treatment planning
Supported by TMS
- Implementation & workflow
- Laboratory coordination
- LabSource technology
- Troubleshooting & support
What practices work with us for
Four concrete areas of operational support.
- Program Management
- Workflow setup, implementation, staff protocols, and ongoing program support.
- Laboratory Coordination
- Coordination with laboratory partners around ordering, specimen workflow, results delivery, and troubleshooting.
- Dedicated Practice Support
- A consistent TMS point of contact who understands the practice and helps resolve operational issues.
- LabSource Technology
- Web-based ordering, test-status visibility, and laboratory-results access.
Dedicated support
One Point of Contact for the Monitoring Program.
Your practice has a consistent TMS contact for laboratory management, implementation, workflow questions, troubleshooting, and ongoing support.
Laboratory flexibility
Laboratory Flexibility Built Into the Program
TMS can coordinate relationships with two laboratory partners, giving practices additional laboratory options and operational flexibility when service needs change.
Laboratory availability, testing capabilities, and network participation vary by practice, payer, location, and laboratory.
Practice / Provider
TMS Coordination
Laboratory Partner A
Laboratory Partner B
The Circle of Care
Everyone in the loop benefits
The Circle of Care illustrates the patient, provider, laboratory partner, and payer relationships surrounding a coordinated medication-monitoring program.
Patient
A more coordinated monitoring process.
Monitoring is organized so the information a provider asked for is available when it is needed.
A coordinated view of the patient, provider, laboratory, and payer relationships surrounding a medication-monitoring program.
Additional capabilities
Other areas practices sometimes ask about
These are secondary to medication monitoring management and are scoped case by case.
- Point-of-Care Testing Support
- Operational guidance around point-of-care testing workflows and billing workflows. Coverage, coding, and reimbursement vary by payer, state, and practice.Learn about Point-of-Care Test Cups
- Physician-Owned Laboratory Consulting
- Consultative support for practices evaluating or operating a physician-owned laboratory.
- Pharmacogenetic Testing Programs
- Program support for pharmacogenetic testing coordinated with laboratory partners.
- Additional Laboratory Services
- Other laboratory service needs can be discussed and coordinated where appropriate.
Talk through your current workflow
A TMS contact will review your setting, current workflow and laboratory relationships before discussing an appropriate scope.