Physician notices and acknowledgements from Medicare Compliance for Clinical Laboratories, presented by MediaLab

Test and Orders: Tests

Physician notices and acknowledgements

Notices to physicians must be sent by the laboratory to its customers once each year.
- Notices remind physicians about Medicare rules and regulations.
- Notices include summaries of laboratory test ordering policies, requisition use, CPT coding and ICD coding.
Physician acknowledgements must be signed by any physician who wants to create a custom panel, profile or reflex test.
- This is the only way a special panel or profile may be performed by the laboratory.
- The physician must order tests individually when there is no physician acknowledgement signed.
- The laboratory must renew physician acknowledgements at least annually.

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