After 10 years, the requirements for signatures on lab requisitions are still in flux. “This is great news,” says Debbie Mackaman, RHIA, CHCO, regulatory specialist for HCPro, Inc., in Danvers, MA.

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 ...