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NEWLY UPDATED, 12/12/2008 - Effective July 1, 2008, all physicians who perform echocardiography services within an office setting will be required to meet one of the following criteria:

For a physician to be privileged for technical and professional echocardiography services (global billing), the physician must be practicing in a practice/facility accredited by the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Echocardiography Laboratories (ICAEL).
For more information on ICAEL accreditation, visit www.icael.org or call (800) 838-2110. If the physician is not ICAEL accredited, then he/she must meet the following criteria:

• The physician must be certified by the National Board of Echocardiography (NBE).
• Ultrasound equipment must meet ICAEL standards
• Staff sonographers must be licensed in ultrasound.

For a physician to be privileged for professional only echocardiography services the physician must meet one of the following criteria:

• The physician must be certified by the NBE
• The physician must meet Level II training in transthoracic echocardiography interpretation as defined by the American College of Cardiology (ACC)
• Physicians trained before Level II training requirements became standard must meet equivalent requirements established in the ACC/AHA Clinical Competency Statement on Echocardiography.

Download a PDF of these guidelines

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