Practice Management: Page 240

Office manager in Calif. referral scam gets 5 years

By Brian Casey

The office manager of a Southern California imaging center that paid referring physicians for patient referrals has been sentenced to five years in prison. The sentencing marks the end of a state and federal investigation into healthcare fraud dubbed Operation Backlash.

June 19, 2019

Practical Considerations of AI: Part 4 -- Adoption

By Michael J. Cannavo

PACSman Michael J. Cannavo explores some potential applications for artificial intelligence (AI) in radiology and offers advice on how institutions can get started on the path to implementing the technology in part 4 of his Practical Considerations of AI series.

June 18, 2019

Imaging Biometrics teams with CorTechs Labs

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Advanced visualization software developer Imaging Biometrics and brain imaging software developer CorTechs Labs have inked a nonexclusive business development agreement.

June 17, 2019

Konica Minolta to offer new financing options for Exa

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas will offer a new financing services program for its Exa enterprise imaging platform.

June 17, 2019

Update on interventional radiology coding and billing

By Sandy Coffta

Proper coding of physician services is essential to efficient billing and the optimization of reimbursement from payors, including commercial and governmental entities. The current procedural terminology codes issued by the American Medical Association to describe physician procedures are supposed to be recognized as standards, but in practice they are not accepted equally by all payors.

June 16, 2019

MedPAC June report focuses on site of service

By Kate Madden Yee

In some good news for radiology, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) June report to the U.S. Congress does not propose any cuts in physician payments beyond statutory updates mandated by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015.

June 13, 2019

Venture capitalist: Radiologists are 'toast' due to AI

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Sun Microsystems founder and venture capitalist Vinod Khosla said Wednesday that artificial intelligence (AI) will advance so far that "any radiologist who continues to practice in 10 years will be killing patients every day," according to an article on TechCrunch.

June 13, 2019

AMA again promotes AI for healthcare

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The American Medical Association (AMA) has endorsed the contributory role that augmented intelligence -- also known as artificial intelligence (AI) -- can play in improving patient care and population health, and in reducing overall costs and promoting professional satisfaction of physicians.

June 11, 2019

Canon, Toshiba to pay $5M fine for medical deal

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Japanese industrial giants Canon and Toshiba have agreed to pay a $5 million fine to settle charges that the firms violated U.S. antitrust laws when Canon acquired Toshiba's medical systems division in 2016.

June 10, 2019

Strategic Radiology wins NC contract

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Radiology consortium Strategic Radiology has added a North Carolina radiology practice to its ranks.

June 10, 2019

Radiologist to pay $11.5M in malpractice suit

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

A Framingham, MA, girl whose family filed a medical malpractice suit against a radiologist at Newton-Wellesley Hospital has been awarded $11.5 million in damages, according to a June 6 report in the Boston Globe.

June 9, 2019

How radiologists can avoid appropriate use penalties

By Sandy Coffta

Is your radiology practice ready for new Medicare requirements on appropriate use and clinical decision support? Or more accurately, are your referring physicians ready? Well they better be, or else your practice could be paying the price. Sandy Coffta of Healthcare Administrative Partners explains.

June 9, 2019

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