DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2011 Issue 2 (February)

CMS expected to cancel clinical signature requirement before implementation date

You’re unlikely to have to face an onerous new rule that would require physicians to sign all clinical lab orders beginning April 1, Part B News has learned. The clinical signature requirement was set to hit Jan. 1, 2011, but was delayed after protests by physician and lab groups, including the American Clinical Laboratory Association (ACLA).

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