Effects On Patients
MQSA is intended to maintain high quality mammography in the United States and its territories. Changes in the final regulations directly affecting regular patients include:
- Mammography facilities are required to provide patients with written results of their mammograms in language that is easy to understand. Also known as a "lay report."
- A consumer complaint mechanism is required to be established in mammography facilities to provide patients with a process for addressing their concerns.
- Patients can obtain their original mammograms, not copies, when they are needed.
- For cases in which a facility’s mammograms are determined to be substandard and a risk to public health, facilities will notify the patients and their doctors and suggest an appropriate plan of action.
Read more about this topic: Mammography Quality Standards Act
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