How timely is your practice to sign off on results gotten from automated testing equipment or ancillary personnel under your supervision?
Getting behind can result in suspension, but it is not a 'hard' suspension, per se: it doesn't mean there are any problems with your medical abilities or expertise. These things must be done for the purposes of both reimbursements and accreditation of your lab and the institution itself. You need to assure the interviewer this won't be an issue.
"Although I've been occasionally remiss in keeping current on supervisory verifications such as signatures, I appreciate the impact of staying current. It's a high priority for me. It is not lost on me how reimbursement by third-party payors can be affected by incomplete charts; but even more important to me is the need for completing the verification process since any results should be considered incomplete until that is done. Results are what I'm here for, from the simplest automated serum levels to the complex oncology calls, and incomplete results, because of failure to timely sign off on them, is unacceptable to me personally."
