Maintaining DIAS certification is critical for all diagnostic imaging professionals and practices, as it maintains access to Medicare rebates, helps improve and standardise practice processes, improves client relationships and practice informational resources, and develops a world-class reputation that ensures a competitive edge over non-accredited practices. If your practice’s accreditation has lapsed for any reason or was revoked, here’s how to go about regaining this critical certification.
Practice Audit and Implementation of Compliance Measures
First, your practice will have to update its processes to fall within compliance measures set out by DIAS. This covers all areas of the practice, including patient care, client communication, personnel management, equipment and technology, safety protocols, best practices and revenue management.
This is not a quick and easy process, and for practices that are looking to gain the benefits of DIAS certification as quickly as possible, it’s worth sourcing a partner who can audit the current practice, outline changes that are required, and navigate the accreditation process on your behalf.
It’s also important to be aware that practices that don’t have accreditation are restricted by law against providing Medicare-funded diagnostic imaging services and must inform clients of this before any services are carried out.
Full or Partial Accreditation
As part of this process, your practice has two options. You can either implement a full accreditation process where it’s required that you meet all 15 accreditation standards (full-suite accreditation), or partial accreditation, where the practice only has to meet a few key accreditation standards, with the aim of achieving full-suite accreditation in the next two years. Your accreditation partner will be able to assess whether your practice will qualify for partial accreditation, as this is typically only applied to new practices who are applying for the first time.
Finding the Right DIAS Certification Partner
Medical professionals don’t have much in the way of spare time for this complex and lengthy bureaucratic process, and while many practices support the benefits of the DIAS accreditation process, the administrative burden is a challenge. As a result, Excelsior Accreditation has developed a professional service to manage the accreditation process. Available to all qualifying practices requiring mandatory DIAS accreditation, our team offers an end-to-end service for both partial and full DIAS accreditation as well as ongoing maintenance to keep your practice compliant and aligned with the scheme to ensure efficient, hassle-free renewal every 4 years.
If you are looking to regain DIAS accreditation for your practice, we will help you with fast, efficient, professional services.
