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.

CMS will no longer enforce a policy that was set to take place last week, requiring a physician or other practitioner’s signature on requisitions for clinical laboratory tests in 2011, according to an ...

Twenty-nine healthcare organizations, including the American Hospital Association (AHA), sent CMS a letter December 3 opposing what they termed the "redundant and burdensome" signature requirement ...

The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services has proposed a rule that would rescind a policy requiring physicians or qualified non-physician practitioners to include their signature on lab ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services delayed on Friday implementation of a policy requiring signatures of physicians or other clinicians to approve requisitions for clinical diagnostic ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will withdraw the requirement that physicians must sign all laboratory requisition forms, according to a news release from the American Association of ...

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 ...