Medicare and Scoring help please!

[BreathPlease]

Just wondering if anyone can help me with a couple of questions. Our registered sleep tech (only one) is quitting very soon. We are in Alabama. Can a non-registered sleep tech run Medicare patients at night? What does supervision mean pertaining to Scoring to your Center? Registered person merely on staff or registered person reviews the test and signs their name to it? THANKS!!

[RayMeece]

That's a loaded question right there. It is based on your local LCD, but my understanding is that an RPSGT must conduct the test. But, I have seen many labs get around the rule somehow by having a RPSGT score the test. No RPSGT will just review and sign. I believe that goes against the Code of Conduct for an RPSGT.

Another thing to be concerned with is that you have a short time to hire an RPSGT to maintain your AASM Accreditation. I think its 18 months, but don't quote me on that. The RPSGT has to be in the lab for 70% of the hours, I think.

[MrBig]

Maybe stop trying to hire goons and underpay them???

[RayMeece]

So, it's okay to hire goons if you pay them well?