LabCorp

Couldn’t be better. Arrive midday. Appointment not necessary. No, or hardly any, waiting. Went a couple of weeks ago most recently. The waiting room was empty. Familiar 2 faces at the desk. Pleasant & businesslike. Didn’t have time to sit down. Sent me in for work. A familiar & friendly face followed me in immediately. We recognized each other. Briefly joked about the (Bethesda) Lab’s ratings. She took my blood before I knew it was missing.
I watched my watch. 5 minutes! In & out, painlessly, with smiles, in Five Minutes. It took me more time to get out of the parking lot. Really.

I arrived prior to my appointment time and the woman and at the reception desk was talking to another patient. I noticed a sign-​in sheet so I went ahead and signed in and then waited in line. After about thirty seconds of waiting the woman at the desk got a very nasty tone and ordered me to have a seat and wait to be called. Apparently, she was upset because I had failed to follow the directions which said, «sign in and then have a seat and wait for your name to be called», directions which she had left folded under the clipboard where I couldn’t see them.
I came to this location because I’ve found other labcorps to be about as friendly as a grizzly bear on PCP, and I went to this one because it had the least terrible Unilocal reviews. Nevertheless, I was disappointed to find yet another area labcorp staffed by rude, impatient people with anger management problems. It seems like this district is led by labcorp leadership who believe «the customer is always a punching bag». Unfortunately, they basically have a monopoly on these services, so your choices are either pinch your nose and tolerate their crap or put your own health at risk.
You will have to pay for parking here.

Before I went here I did the usual thing which is to make an appointment. The web site for making appointments is relatively simple to use except that it turns off right click (how very 2007) and uses javascript popups which makes it impossible to open important pages in new browser tabs. The site also explains that you will need to «Please bring your confirmation sheet» but no page bears any text resembling «this is the confirmation sheet» so you must guess what needs to be printed out and cross your fingers. Sorry that this is more of a review of the web site but it is an integral part of having a non-​crummy experience as having an appointment is an improvement over not having one.

If you don’t have an appointment I advise you be there no later than 7:30am as a line forms outside of the office. I got there at 7:30 and was in and out by 8:05 which was awesome! I wish I could remember her name… it was something with a P I think? Patricia? Patrice? I hope I am not completely off! Either way she was wonderful and got me in and out and Im very thankful that she was so speedy in the morning!

I used them for routine blood work for my annual physical. It was easy to schedule an appointment online. Check-​in was easy and I was able to be seen right away. The staff were very nice and friendly. The tech was quick and very efficient. This is the easiest time I’ve ever had getting blood taken. I would definitely recommend this place for anyone needing lab work done.

It would be great if they ever answered the phone. Frustrating when you work in a doctors office and need to communicate regarding patients orders and results…

I wrote a previous negative review of this LabCorp location and it looks like Unilocal took it down.
I was sent by my internist who is in the same building as LabCorp because he thought that it would be fastest for me because my appointment with him was an early one and the other lab in the building did not open unit 9am. I had my 7:45am appointment with my internist and then went to the LabCorp office only one floor down. I got there at 8:15am., about 15 minutes after they opened. I noticed two things:
(1) very few staff were at work at that point. I watched workers arrive over the next one hour and 20 minutes.
(2) Almost all patients had appointments apparently. When I got there there were about 5 people ahead of me. Over the next one and one-​half hours an additional 25 patients walked in. It was over an hour and one-​half before I was seen for a simple blood draw. I was not aware of appointments, and anyway I did not really know when I should make the «appointment» because I was not sure how long I would be at my internist’s office first.
Also, they made me swipe my credit card for a payment even though I have Blue Cross/​Blue Shield Carefirst through JHU, and I should be billed for any coinsurance rather than pay first at the provider location.
All in all I was not please by the service. Also I though that the blood draw work was quite sloppy and not expertly given.
All and all I was very unsatisfied.
I hope that BC/​BS of MD steers away from LabCorp. I do no think it is a good organization overall from my experience at their Chevy Chase facility.

LAZY workers. i was never told i needed to tell them if i wanted my lab results mailed to me. i was expecting them in the mail, because they had mailed me my lab results several years ago without requesting it… apparently they had mailed it by accident then. so, i called the chevy chase office to have my results mailed to me, but was told it was too late, i had needed to request them at the initial appt. so, i called the 1 – 800 number and the lady graciously told me that they could mail my results to me, but then she couldn’t fine my account, because the dumb workers in chevy chase mixed up my first and last name. duh!

Having surgery? Need bloodwork done? CBC, Chem7 or some other form of body fluid test? Don’t have time to wait for an appointment with your doctor?
Have no fear! LabCorp is here (from 830 – 4). And the best part is you don’t need an appointment!
LabCorb is located in Friendship Heights in the all-​forms-​of-​medical-​practice building (5530 Wisconsin Ave) and is a walk-​in service center for lab work. This can work for you or against you actually. You can show up and there will be no one there ahead of you or there will be a gazillion + 1 people ahead of you.
Basically, you walk in, write your name on the clipboard and wait to be called. After you’re called, you’ll submit ID, doctor’s orders, insurance card and credit card. Your credit card is only charged after all insurance discounts apply and it’s a max charge of $ 20. (My charges ended up being $ 2) and you sign to pre-​authorize this menial charge.
After about 15 minutes of waiting, I was called back. These nurses are pretty on the ball and know what they’re doing. The nurse at Suburban Hospital had a helluva time finding a good vein but this nurse found one faster than I’ve ever seen done before. After what seemed like an eternity of filling vile after vile of blood, I was soon done and sent to the bathroom to fill another container with stuff.
Once that task was completed, I set it on the counter. I had a question for my nurse but she seemed to have disappeared. Not sure where she went, so I just left. I guess if there had been a problem, they’d contact me but oh well. My tests were done, results were going to be sent to my doctor within 2 days and forwarded to the hospital. I also received a copy of the results in the mail a few days later.
I’m hoping not to ever return — but should I need some form of test done, this is where I’ll end up, for sure. They’re not the friendliest nurses but they’re good at what they do and that’s all I can really ask for.