Patient Care

Your organization must be:

• Located within the United States, one of its territories or possessions, or is a Department of Defense medical treatment facility or program.
  
• A formally organized and legally established business that provides the type(s) of DMEPOS patient care services for which you are applying.
  
• Licensed according to applicable state and federal laws and regulations and maintains all current legal authorization to operate.
  
• Staffed with board certified or licensed personnel appropriate to the scope of services you provide.
• Operational and have a minimum of 5* complete patient charts available at the time of the onsite survey.
• Applying for ABC accreditation for all the services you provide, regardless of whether you bill Medicare for these services. This requirement extends only to those services for which ABC offers accreditation.
• Applying for ABC accreditation for all patient care locations and each location must be in a suitable clinical setting. The decision of what is suitable is solely within ABC's discretion. 
  
• Compliant with state licensure requirements. Note: If allowed by state law, Pharmacists are exempt from standard HR.4.1.

*If the facility is newly established and has a limited patient care history, ABC may determine that a smaller number of complete patient charts is acceptable.