Drug testing supplies for clinics and urgent care.

You need a CLIA Certificate of Waiver, the simplest CLIA certificate tier, before performing even waived testing. Apply through your state's CLIA program. You do not need a high-complexity certificate or a proficiency-testing program for CLIA-waived devices specifically. Once issued, your clinic can perform CLIA-waived tests, including ASC's waived cups, at the bedside.

Presumptive point-of-care screening is billed under standard clinical drug-testing codes, with separate codes used for definitive confirmation by mass spectrometry. Exact codes and reimbursement vary by payer and plan, so check current guidance with your billing team or payer contracts before submitting claims.

Identify local employers (construction, manufacturing, logistics, healthcare staffing) that need pre-employment, random, post-accident, and reasonable-suspicion testing. Offer flat per-test pricing billed directly to the employer rather than insurance, which avoids payer processing and pays faster than clinical billing. ASC's account team can help with service-line setup, contracts, and workflow guidance.

Clinical (non-custody) testing for direct patient-care decisions is typically unobserved, since patient privacy matters and adulteration risk is low. Custody testing (court-ordered, DOT-regulated, return-to-duty, or follow-up after a verified positive) generally must be directly observed by a same-gender collector under federal collection procedures. Pre-employment and reasonable-suspicion tests are typically unobserved unless the collector documents suspected tampering. Use oral fluid for cases where observed urine isn't workable.

The cup itself is paper-and-strip, so there's no device-to-EMR data bridge. Documentation flows through your existing point-of-care entry workflow: result entered as a structured observation under the encounter, with the cup image attached if your clinic photographs results for documentation. Most clinics use a note template or order set in Epic, Athena, or eClinicalWorks that captures the result, lot number, and billing code in one step.

Any presumptive positive that will trigger a consequential decision (employer hiring decision, custody dispute, child-welfare action, prescribing decision involving controlled substances) should go to mass-spectrometry confirmation at a certified lab. POC cups are screening devices, not definitive ones, so the false-positive rate matters more when stakes are high. For routine clinical decisions where the consequence is a conversation with the patient, on-site reading is usually sufficient.

Yes, but DOT testing requires a trained collector for urine and a certified breath alcohol technician for breath testing. Your urgent care can become a DOT collection site by training staff to the DOT collector curriculum and completing mock collections. Once certified, you can serve local trucking, construction, and aviation employers.

Yes. Drug test results are protected under patient confidentiality laws such as HIPAA, though they may be disclosed to employers, legal authorities, or insurance companies when required.