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Demonstrate your laboratory’s commitment to quality patient care and diagnostic evaluations.
Committed to balancing the changing needs of both the echocardiography community and the general public, the ICAEL was created in 1996 by uniting physicians and sonographers from the sponsoring organizations. Collaborating together, those physicians and sonographers composed the body of work known as The Standards, an extensive document defining the minimal requirements for echocardiography laboratories to provide high quality care. Laboratories use The Standards as both a guideline and the foundation to create and achieve realistic quality care goals. The ICAEL Standards for echocardiography laboratories are divided into Adult Echocardiography and Pediatric Echocardiography. The Application for accreditation and all materials necessary to complete the accreditation process must be ordered from the ICAEL. The process begins with a comprehensive self-evaluation by laboratory staff. Completion of the application for accreditation requires information on all aspects of laboratory operation as well as the submission of actual case studies for review. After a laboratory submits the application to the ICAEL, the application undergoes a confidential peer-review by the ICAEL's trained reviewers, including both physicians and sonographers, before a final decision is made by the Board Of Directors. ICAEL accreditation is a voluntary process, although reimbursement policies have been enacted throughout the United States, by Medicare, and other providers that require ICAEL Accreditation. BREAKING NEWS: UnitedHealth Group Extends Deadline Requiring Echo Accreditation JANUARY 15, 2008 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE UnitedHealth Group (UnitedHealthcare), regarding its announcement requiring all participating, freestanding imaging facilities and physician offices performing echocardiography procedures to apply for accreditation as a condition for reimbursement, has extended its original March 1, 2008 deadline for this requirement until the third quarter of 2008. For more information about ICAEL call (832) 467-4404 or Click Here to ask questions. |
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