Diagnostic testing: Follow the right set of regulations
Health Care Auditing Strategies, May 1, 2006
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Hospitals and nonhospital settings, such as independent diagnostic testing facilities (IDTF), have different physician-supervision requirements for diagnostic radiology tests. But the lines can be blurred when a hospital also has free-standing clinics.
For many providers, the official rules and regulations are difficult to find. Still, hospital auditors and compliance officers should be aware of the differences when verifying that their facility's diagnostic radiology tests meet physician-supervision standards-particularly if they work for a hospital in which diagnostic tests are performed in a provider-based clinic separate from the hospital campus.
Below, Stacie L. Buck, RHIA, LHRM, vice president of Southeast Radiology Management in Stuart, FL; Duane Abbey, PhD, CFP, president of Abbey & Abbey Consultants, Inc., in Ames, IA; and Stacy Gregory, RCC, CPC, senior consultant at Gregory Medical Consulting Services in Tacoma, WA, provide guidelines for the different settings and best practices for compliance.
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