CEO SUMMARY: Last year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) used publication of the proposed 2011 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule to introduce new language that would require, as of January 1, 2011, that all paper requisitions for clinical laboratory tests for Medicare patients be signed by a physician or qualified non-physician provider. Public […]
Paper Requisition Signature Rule Contradicts 2001 Actions
Medicare officials say new rule is needed to end confusion about orders and requisitions
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume XVIII No. 1 - January 18, 2011 Issue
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