Home Healthcare

Labcorp understands the challenges of collecting specimens in nonclinical environments and has validated the stability and methodology of using plasma tubes in Lab-in-a-Box and a dried blood spot collection card in Lab-in-an-Envelope to make field collections of laboratory specimens possible.

Lab-in-a-Box

Lab-in-a-Box is an all inclusive venipuncture collection kit and transport system to simplify specimen handling by using stable anticoagulated blood specimens.

Lab-in-an-Envelope

Lab-in-an-Envelope is an all inclusive fingerstick collection kit and transport system when phlebotomy is not an option.


Lab-in-a-Box

Lab-in-a-Box is an all inclusive venipuncture collection kit and transport system to simplify specimen handling. Lab-in-a-Box allows home health care providers to draw blood using plasma tubes and send it directly to the lab without centrifuging (spinning).

Your kit includes

Original/outer box

Inner container

Test request form (TRF)
with bar code labels

Dual temp packs

Biohazard bag with tubes

Luer adapter,
vacutainer holder

OSHA compliant
retractable straight needle

FedEx Pac*

*FedEx Pak is contained only in ordered item "HH5000" and used when shipping Lab-in-a-Box via FedEx

Lab-in-a-Box resources

 

Lab-in-a-Box Customer Service

Complete the Account Set up Form to establish a new account for Labcorp services.

How to order your Lab-in-a-Box Kit

You may place your Lab-in-a-Box supplies order in the following ways:
 



Lab-in-an-Envelope

Lab-in-an-Envelope is an all-inclusive fingerstick collection kit and transport system when phlebotomy is not an option. Lab-in-an-Envelope uses dried blood spot specimens, a method widely used for screening since the early 1960s. The Lab-in-an-Envelope program can extend select health screening tests to remote or widely dispersed populations who may have little or no convenient access to phlebotomy.

Each Lab-in-an-Envelope kit contains all the items required to collect, prepare, and mail dried blood specimens to the laboratory via US mail.

 

 

Tests that are available via Lab-in-an-Envelope are:
 

  • Total cholesterol

  • Lipid

  • CRP

  • ALT

  • Hemoglobin A1c

  • PSA

  • Creatinine

  • Testosterone

  • Cotinine

  • TSH

  • BUN


We also offer the following kits:

ADX 100 Serum Separator card kit

903 Whatman card kit

 

Lab-in-an-Envelope resources

Supporting health plans

Convenient testing options

The Lab-in-an-Envelope training video illustrates how to properly use the blood spot collection kit.

For a complete menu of Lab-in-an-Envelope tests or more information about how the Lab-in-an-Envelope program can bring convenience and value to your organization, call 888-522-4452 or email [email protected].