Accreditation
USA Medical Imaging provides accreditation services for clinics and hospitals. Contact us here.
Why Accreditation?
- Practice evaluation or appraisal
- May document need for dedicated equipment, continuing education or qualified personnel
- Expert assessment of image quality
- Formal review may be used to meet criteria of ACS, state or federal government, or third-party payers
- Medicare and other payers have enacted reimbursement policies that may require accreditation
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ACR
Facilities seeking ACR accreditation in other modalities do so voluntarily, but for a variety of very good reasons:
- Peer review, educationally-focused evaluation of practice
- May document need for dedicated equipment, continuing education or qualified personnel
- Expert assessment of image quality
- Formal review may be used to meet criteria of ACS, state or federal government, or third-party payers
- Medicare and other payers have enacted reimbursement policies that may require accreditation
- Marketing tool
Health care organizations are held to very high levels of accountability, by peers and by the general public.
In numerous states, reimbursement directives that require accreditation of the laboratory have been instituted.
Similar draft payment policies are pending throughout the United States. Laboratories attaining accreditation
before it is required for reimbursement demonstrate a willingness to surpass current expectations.
The general public and members of the nuclear medicine, nuclear cardiology and PET communities will
recognize an unmatched commitment to providing quality health care by laboratories that achieve ICANL accreditation.
ICANL
ICANL accreditation is an educational process, not a pass-fail exam.
The process begins with a comprehensive self-evaluation by laboratory staff.
Completion of the application for accreditation requires information on all aspects
of laboratory operation as well as the submission of actual case studies for review.
After the application is submitted to the ICANL, it undergoes a confidential
peer-review by the ICANL’s trained reviewers, including physicians and technologists,
before a final decision is made by the Board Of Directors.
http://www.icanl.org/icanl/accreditation/whatis.htm
http://www.acr.org/accreditation.aspx