CANM Non-Invasive Labs Receive National Certification
09/25/2008.
Jack Foster MD, head of the CANM non-invasive labs, has to be proud. CANM is the first physician -owned practice in the State of Mississippi to be certified by ICAEL and ICANL.
The purpose of the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Echocardiography Laboratories (ICAEL) and the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Nuclear Medicine Laboratories (ICANL) is "to ensure high quality patient care and to promote health care by providing a mechanism to encourage and recognize the provision of quality echocardiographic and nuclear cardiology evaluations by a process of voluntary accreditation." Through the accreditation process, laboratories assess every aspect of daily operation and its impact on the quality of health care provided to patients. While completing the accreditation application, laboratories often identify and correct potential problems, revising protocols and validating quality assurance programs. Because accreditation is renewed every three years, a long-term commitment to quality and self-assessment is developed and maintained. Laboratories may use ICAEL and ICANL accreditation as the foundation to create and achieve realistic quality care goals.
Recently the US Congress passed and upheld the Patients and Providers Act on July 9th and 15th, 2008. The bill requires that by 2012 providers of advanced diagnostic imaging services, inclusive of Nuclear Medicine, MR, CT, and PET, must obtain accreditation as a condition for reimbursement. In addition, it establishes a two year voluntary program to collect data regarding physician compliance with appropriateness criteria in order to determine the appropriateness of advanced diagnostic imaging services furnished to Medicare beneficiaries.
CANM is committed to quality care and quality imaging for the benefit of its patients.