The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has indicated that it might rescind a rule that requires physician signatures on requisitions for all clinical laboratory tests paid for by Medicare, as ...

Twenty-nine healthcare organizations, including the American Hospital Association (AHA), sent CMS a letter December 3 opposing what they termed the "redundant and burdensome" signature requirement ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will withdraw the requirement that physicians must sign all laboratory requisition forms, according to a news release from the American Association of ...

CMS has announced it is delaying enforcement of policy included in the 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule final rule requiring a physician’s or qualified nonphysician practitioner’s signature on ...