• Review terms and rates. You should know the cost of your services and consider if the contract will generate non-covered services. Verify contract terms and confirm that your clinic or lab and finance department can meet these terms. Consider fee scheduling, infection control, licensing, quality assurance, site visit, and any other requirements stated in the contract. You may also contact a health care attorney to review the contract before you sign it as well. • Negotiate. After reviewing the contract, you can modify contract terms. Look for paragraphs that restrict your ability to collect reimbursement. Ensure that the third party payer agreement includes a description of covered services as well as a current fee schedule. • Signing the contract. Identify the person in your organization that is authorized to establish contracts and keep them informed throughout your efforts to obtain a contract. • Have contract on file. For periodic renewal and annual updating of fees, you must be able to readily access your contract. CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION (CME) Continuing Medical Education (CME) is a very important part of your life as a physician. It allows you to maintain competence and learn about developing areas of medicine. CME comes in many forms: live events, written publications, online programs, audio, video, or various electronic media. The Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners (LSBME) administrative rules require every physician seeking the renewal or reinstatement of licensure shall annually evidence and document, upon forms supplied by the board, the successful completion of not less than 20 hours of board-approved CME. An applicant for renewal of licensure who fails to evidence satisfaction of the continuing medical education requirements prescribed by these rules shall be given written notice of such failure by the board.
CONTROLLED DANGEROUS SUBSTANCE (CDS) LICENSE RENEWAL CME REQUIREMENT
Pursuant to Act 76 passed by the Louisiana Legislature during the Regular Legislative Session of 2017, all practitioners with a Controlled Dangerous Substance (CDS) license in Louisiana are now required to complete three hours of LSBME-approved continuing medical education (CME) for the 2019 renewal year. An authorized prescriber renewing his/her license for the first time in 2019 may be excused from the CME requirement upon submission of a certification attesting that he/she has not prescribed, administered, or dispensed any CDS during the entire year covered by the prescribers’ expiring license. The LSBME will verify this through the Louisiana Prescription Monitoring Program. An exempted licensee, who subsequently prescribes, administers, or dispenses a CDS shall satisfy the CME requirement as a condition to license renewal for the year immediately following that in which the CDS was prescribed, administered, or dispensed.
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