Good News for Clinical Pathology Laboratories! CMS Will Not Enforce Physician-Signature Rule
CMS officials have instructed carriers not to enforce the physician signature rule for paper requisitions for medical laboratory tests
Officials at the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will continue to delay enforcement of a rule requiring physician signatures on paper requisitions for medical laboratory tests. This is a positive development for all clinical laboratories and pathology groups in the United States.
What is an even more important development is that this rule may never be enforced, according to leaders from two of the nation’s laboratory associations. The entire medical laboratory testing industry has waited since the end of December for an official statement from CMS on enforcement of this rule.
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