Catalog Number : ngd1766
Title : CMS Radiology and lab for Hospitals
Speaker : Sue Dill

Webplay Recording Date : 9-8-2011
Webplay Price : $ 200 for two weeks viewing

Webinar Overview:
This program is part of the continuing series that focuses on what hospitals need to know about the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) standards. This program will cover the lab and radiology standards. Every hospital that accepts Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement must be in compliance with these standards and for all patients. Failure to follow these standards can result in the loss of reimbursement to the hospital for Medicare and Medicaid patients. The Joint Commission has also started surveying to ensure compliance with some of the important CMS standards. Problematic areas will also be discussed. The proposed telemedicine standards will also be discussed.

Target Audience:

• The Director of Radiology
• Radiology Medical Director
• Infection Preventionist
• Radiology staff
• Compliance Officer
• Chief Nursing Officer
• Joint Commission Director
• Director of Regulatory Affairs
• Legal Counsel
• Risk Managers
• Radiology nurses
• Staff nurses
• Lab Director
• lab staff
• any other person involved in ensuring compliance with the CMS lab and radiology standards

A few of the topics to be discussed:

• Introduction
• How to locate a current copy of the CoPs
• How to keep up with changes
• Radiology Standards starting at Tag 528
  • Hospital must maintain diagnostic radiology services
  • Therapeutic services
  • Meeting the needs of the patients
  • Must follow standards of care and practice
  • American College of Radiology (ACR) standards
  • Scope and complexity of services
  • Contracts for radiology services
  • Safety for patients and personnel
  • Required hospital policies
  • Hospital compliance with its safety standards
  • Periodic inspection of equipment
  • Radiation exposure checking for employees
  • Order required
  • Supervising ionizing radiology services
  • Who can sign a radiology report
  • Infection control standards
  • Who can use radiology equipment
  • Radiology records
• Lab Standards
  • Hospital must have adequate lab services
  • Must be done in certified facility (CLIA)
  • Must be integrated into the PI program
  • Contracts
  • Emergency lab services available 24 hours a day
  • Written description of lab services
  • Reporting of tissue specimens
  • Must be sent to pathology?
  • Look back program

Webinar Objectives:

• Recall that CMS has a section on radiology and lab standards in the hospital conditions of participation
• Discuss that CMS has a list of radiology policies that hospitals are required to have
• Describe that radiation workers must be checked periodically for amount of radiation exposure
• Recall that radiology services may only be provided on the order of a practitioner
• Discuss the requirement that all radiology reports are signed by the practitioner who interpreted them
• Discuss that the lab must be integrated into the PI process
  

Full tuition is refunded immediately on request if the participant has not been sent the program materials and instructions. Once the instructions (including access codes) have been sent, a full refund will be issued only after the program runs and it is verified that the participant did not access the program.