Physician notices and acknowledgements

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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.