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Are you ready to apply for accreditation? Before you send your
laboratory's application for review, make sure that you have
completed and enclosed a complete, accurate Accreditation Agreement.
Because the Agreement is a required legal document, we cannot
release a final decision regarding the status of your laboratory
without it.
Applying for reaccreditation? Approximately 12 to 15 months prior
to your accreditation's expiration date, a reaccreditation notification
letter will be sent to the attention of the Medical and Technical
Directors. A newly completed Agreement is required in conjunction
with every reaccreditation.
Are you using the most current version of the Agreement? The
download link below provides the most current version
of the Accreditation Agreement.
All IAC applications submitted after January 1, 2010
will not have their decision rendered without submitting a completed IAC Accreditation Agreement.
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DOWNLOAD THE OFFICIAL IAC ACCREDITATION AGREEMENT
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[NOTE: For laboratories using any Business Associate Agreement other than the IAC Business Associate Agreement, the Addendum to Business Associate Agreement must be completed.]
Download Addendum |
COMPLETING THE ACCREDITATION
AGREEMENT
The following items should be given particular attention when completing
the document:
- The current Agreement document must be submitted.
- Photocopies or scanned computer-altered Agreements will not be accepted.
- Be certain to answer all questions.
- The Agreement must be appropriately signed by a person authorized to enter into the Agreement on behalf of the laboratory.
- There is no need to have the signatures notarized.
- If applying for accreditation with more than one of the IAC divisions (i.e., ICAVL and ICAEL), an Agreement for each type of accreditation must be completed.
- Any changes to the Agreement must be pre-approved by the IAC and will incur a $200.00 fee.
To avoid any unnecessary delay in notification of, or a lapse in,
your accreditation status, please take care to review each page
of the Agreement before returning it and the appropriate application
fees.
HIPAA COMPLIANCE
AND THE ACCREDITATION AGREEMENT
To ensure compliance with the regulations set forth by the Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Accreditation Agreement includes a Business Associate Agreement (BA) defining the
IAC as a "business associate" and defining its duties
and obligations as such.
Laboratories wishing to use a BA other than the IAC BA are required to download and submit the IAC Addendum to the Business Associate Agreement [above].
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