CMS Wins Praise for Delaying Lab Requirement

AHCA is applauding CMS for delaying the implementation of a new requirement that physicians sign clinical lab service requisitions. The agency has pushed back the implementation from January 1, 2011 to the end of the first quarter of 2011.

In a press release, AHCA President and CEO Bruce Yarwood said that "the long term care community, along with our partners in the Clinical Laboratory Coalition, has been fighting this issue vehemently because it placed more emphasis on paperwork than on critical patient care."

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