After 10 years, the requirements for signatures on lab requisitions are still in flux. “This is great news,” says Debbie Mackaman, RHIA, CHCO, regulatory specialist for HCPro, Inc., in Danvers, MA.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule in the Federal Register on June 30, 2011, that would retract the CMS policy requiring that requisitions for clinical ...
CMS has announced it is delaying enforcement of policy included in the 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule final rule requiring a physician’s or qualified nonphysician practitioner’s signature on ...