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Monarch Medical resolves legal dispute
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Monarch Medical PET Services, Monarch Medical Imaging Equipment, and former Monarch PET CEO Michael Abboud announced they have resolved all litigation between the parties.
October 2, 2014
NJ imaging chain allowed to reopen
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A New Jersey imaging chain accused of paying physicians for referrals will be allowed to go back into business while its owner awaits prosecution in connection with the case, according to an article on NJ.com.
September 29, 2014
RT gets prison time in Army contracting fraud
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A radiologic technologist (RT) who ran an equipment contracting scheme at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio has been ordered to serve four years in prison and pay more than $400,000 in restitution.
September 28, 2014
Miss. court says medical board can discipline radiologist
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Mississippi Court of Appeals has ruled that the state's medical licensing board can discipline a radiologist for making false lung disease diagnoses, according to an Associated Press report.
September 23, 2014
vRad settles patent lawsuit against Tandem
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Teleradiology services provider Virtual Radiologic (vRad) and its NightHawk Radiology Services subsidiary have settled a lawsuit asserting patent infringement by Tandem Radiology.
September 18, 2014
Mobile imaging owner indicted in $7.5M Medicare fraud
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The owner of a Maryland mobile imaging provider that performed radiology studies that were allegedly never read by actual physicians has been indicted in a U.S. District Court in Baltimore.
September 17, 2014
Lawsuit attacks CMS policy on PET beta-amyloid scans
By Wayne Forrest
Three women have filed suit against the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services (CMS), seeking to invalidate the agency's reimbursement policy for PET beta-amyloid scans to detect early signs of Alzheimer's disease. The litigation charges that CMS overstepped its authority when it implemented the policy last year.
September 10, 2014
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Lawsuit hits CMS over beta-amyloid PET; breast MRI audits; breast screening debate at ICR 2014
By Brian Casey
September 10, 2014
ContextVision files image quality patent
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
ContextVision has filed a patent application for a new image quality measurement technology called Virtual Expert.
September 7, 2014
Ill. revokes mammo license of Chicago center
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The state of Illinois has revoked a Chicago imaging center's license to perform mammography after finding that the facility was failing to provide patients with reports in a timely manner.
September 3, 2014
Cardiology group to pay $1.3M in Stark case
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A cardiology group in New York has agreed to pay the U.S. government $1.3 million to settle charges that it compensated physicians based on how many patients they referred for medical imaging scans.
August 28, 2014
Owner of sham Calif. imaging center gets 8 years
By Brian Casey
The owner of a bogus imaging center in California that billed Medicare for $20 million in prescriptions for antipsychotic medications -- but never performed a single medical imaging exam -- received eight years in prison from a federal judge on August 18.
August 20, 2014
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