Specifications include, but are not limited to: 1. The Contractor shall collect, pick up, and deliver all specimens collected at the Home to the contractor’s duly authorized laboratory the same morning to ensure specimens remain viable. The Contractor must notify the License Vocational Nurse {LVN) or Registered Nurse (RN) on the unit if unable to collect specimens at any given time. The Contractor shall communicate results for morning phlebotomy specimens on the same day and before 2:00 PM. 2. Non-blood specimens collected by the Home's nursing staff shall be done prior to routine phlebotomy hours as defined above and shall be picked up by the phlebotomist the same day throughout respective locations at the Home with results to be available within twenty-four (24) hours or sooner. All routine tests ordered after the routine phlebotomy business hours will be performed the next business day. Results shall be communicated to the Home immediately upon availability. 3. The Contractor shall not determine whether any resident or any laboratory test for a particular resident is a covered service by an applicable third-party payer. Therefore, the Contractor shall not be held financially responsible for tests that a third-party payer may determine medically unnecessary, not a covered service, or unauthorized by the third-party payer Reports.