Lab Services: The lab at SHC is equipped to perform multiple common lab tests at minimal charge to the patient. In most cases, results will be available at the time of your visit. Commonly ordered tests available include pregnancy testing, rapid Strep testing, Monospot, and urinalysis. Other blood tests and Pap smears are sent to outside laboratories, and are not free of charge. However, in many cases, the SHC can get some labs tests “at cost”, with minimal charge to the student. These tests can be paid for at the time of checkout. For more expensive tests or those not performed at SHC (i.e., sent to the Medical Center), the student’s health insurance company will be billed for the tests by the Vanderbilt Medical Center. The SHC itself does not bill insurance companies.
Arrangements for receiving your lab results will be made with your provider at the time that the test is done.
Dispensary: SHC stocks a number of commonly used medications that our providers prescribe. We buy these items in bulk at significant savings in many cases, and are able to pass these savings on to our patients. However, if you have an insurance policy that allows even greater savings at a local pharmacy, you should ask your provider to write a prescription that can be filled at a pharmacy, rather than purchasing the medicine at SHC. Our dispensary is NOT a pharmacy and cannot be used to fill prescriptions that have been written by providers outside of the SHC.
