tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 41

LABS: Now See This--Optometrists Can Be Lab Directors

...though there are some restrictions on directors with certain diagnostic specialties.The Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments may allow an individual with a Doctor of Optometry degree to be a laboratory director--but a laboratory could need to limit the person's authority.Reason: Optometrists can qualify as directors of moderate complexity laboratories--"but only for test procedures performed in their specialty area," the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services wrote in a recent letter to state survey agency directors. CMS requires optometrists to obtain 20 continuing medical education credits in laboratory practice to qualify as laboratory directors "performing moderate complexity procedures...

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