Put a stop to stamped signatures once and for all
Medical Records Briefing, December 1, 2008
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If you didn’t receive the memo about signature stamps, look no further than special edition Medlearn Matters article SE0829. The article, which clarifies Transmittal 248, which took effect April 28, is explicit: Hospitals cannot accept stamped physician signatures under any circumstance.
Hospitals may have overlooked this CMS requirement to abolish signature stamps upon release of the original transmittal because the document focused on signature requirements for the certification of terminal illness for hospice. However, SE0829 states that “stamped signatures are not acceptable on any medical record. Medicare will accept handwritten, electronic signatures, or facsimiles of original written or electronic signatures.”
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