VIDEO: Preparing for radiology appropriate use criteria clinical decision support reporting requirements
Lisa Mead, PSO executive director, Strategic Radiology, spoke at the Radiology Business Management Association (RBMA) 2022 meeting on radiology practices being prepared for the January 2023 deadline to have appropriate use criteria clinical decision support (AUC/CDS) software operational.
However, this mandate has been pushed back annually since 2016 when it was first supposed to go into effect, and there are questions if it will be delayed yet again. Several medical imaging societies are calling on Congress to repeal the AUC/CDS mandate because they believe it will cause delays in care, involve more administrative staff time, add costs to healthcare and delay new guidelines and recommendations from being quickly added into CDS systems.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service (CMS) said beginning Jan. 1, 2023, claims submitted without compliance certificates from CDS will be rejected. Mead's RBMA session provided a refresher on the AUC/CDS requirements and discussed methods that are working or not in getting prepared. She also reviewed the components of the appropriate use criteria clinical decision support program mandated by PAMA, and the methods that can be utilized by practices to successfully coordinate hospitals and referring providers in program implementation.
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