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In a previous Payment Matters article, we reported that CMS had proposed to retract its rule requiring a physician or qualified non-physician practitioner (NPP) to sign the requisition for a clinical ...

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.

As part of the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule final rule for calendar year 2011, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) required a physician or a qualified non-physician practitioner (NPP ...

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 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 & Medicaid Services has indicated that it might rescind a rule that requires physician signatures on requisitions for all clinical laboratory tests paid for by Medicare, as ...

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 ...

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 ...