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Comprehensive Guide to Starting a Mobile Phlebotomy Company

How to Start a Medical Courier Service

by Compendent ·  3 min read  ·  October 23, 2020

How to Start a Medical Courier Service

Medical courier services are essential to sustaining the operations of doctors’ offices and clinics. This is because medical courier services are responsible for transporting blood samples, medical supplies, and even organs to laboratories for analysis. By facilitating the movement of such items, medical courier services ensure that doctors receive analysis information on patient samples and other medical notes pertaining to patients.

If you have ever wanted to be a part of the medical world, even to a small degree, while still being your own boss, you may consider starting your own medical courier service. With no special degree required to enter this field, this business is definitely one that you can start, so here are five steps to get you started.

Establish Your Presence

Before you can begin advertising yourself and your company, or even begin transporting medical items, you will need to establish your business’ name and a location from which to operate. These will give you a firm presence, in a business sense, since it will make your business look professional and give you a solid place to control your business’ operations from.

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Equip Yourself

The next step you will need to take is to acquire the vehicles and materials that you will need in order to transport medical items. It is important to complete this step in the beginning of your business building process because without vehicles you cannot do the most important part of your job, which is to transport.

Advertise

After you have all the foundational supplies and a location for your business, you will want to advertise the start-up of your business. The importance of this step is to find other drivers who you can employ. You may choose to do all deliveries yourself in the beginning, but as your business grows, you will want to have some drivers who can be “on call.”

Insure Your Business

As a medical courier service, you will want to get insurance that covers your drivers as well as your vehicles. On top of that, you will most likely have to get insurance specifically to cover the medical supplies and samples that you will be transporting. This insurance will protect you from any surprise costs and will show the people who hire you that you are taking precautions to protect everything that you transport.

Contact Medical Facilities

The final step that you will need to take when starting your own medical courier business is contacting medical facilities that could potentially need your services. To do this, you could talk to nonprofit organizations, individual clients, pharmacies, or even nursing homes in person and offer to transport any medical items they need transported to another facility. If the particular one you talk to does not need your services, you should always ask if there is anyone else that could benefit from your services.

Closing Thoughts

A medical courier service is a business that does not require you to have any particular education. So if you are looking for a field where you can still make a difference, you should consider starting your own business. If you follow these five steps and dedicate yourself to working for your business’ success, then you will be off to a great start.

Filed Under: Business Tagged With: Concierge Medical Services, entrepreneurship

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