Consider the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services CMS

Consider the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services\' (CMS) position that “if it isn’t documented, then it wasn’t done.”

Do you agree with this statement? Why or why not? Provide examples to support your responses.

Solution

In case of medicare service, it is highly crucial to maintain proper documentation of all pathological samples analyzed. Hence I agree with the above statement. For example: If you give a blood sample for complete blood profile and later on you find no documents related to your sample, it will be implyed as the analysis was not done