title: Easing the switch to medical necessity documentation.
abstract: The responsibility for educating clinicians on Medicare's new regulations for test coding and documentation has fallen to the nation's laboratories. See how this reference laboratory created its own tools to help them cope.
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Bartels
mesh_terms: D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques / Q000145:classification / Q000191:economics* / Q000592:standards; D004194:Disease / Q000145:classification; D004282:Documentation / Q000592:standards*; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007344:Insurance Claim Reporting / Q000145:classification*; D006278:Medicare / Q000592:standards*; D009329:Nebraska; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D014481:United States