Practice Management: Page 508

Feds charge imaging center owner with $30M Medicare fraud
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The owner of a radiology practice in New York City has been charged by the U.S. Department of Justice with fraudulent billing of more than $30 million in radiology services provided to Medicare and Medicaid patients that allegedly were never performed.
August 30, 2012
Calif. Legislature passes 2nd breast density bill
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
In another attempt at passing breast density notification legislation, the California State Senate and Assembly have passed a bill that would require women with dense breast tissue to be informed of their status.
August 29, 2012
AMA contacts Congress to stop imaging cuts
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American Medical Association (AMA) said it recently contacted two congressmen, Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Rep. Pete Olson (R-TX), to push for their support in passing the Diagnostic Imaging Services Protection Act, legislation sponsored by the American College of Radiology.
August 29, 2012
ASRT, Elekta award radiation therapy scholarships
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) and radiation oncology firm Elekta have awarded more than $20,000 in scholarships to radiation therapy students, the two organizations announced.
August 28, 2012
Varian files suit against Elekta
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation therapy vendor Varian Medical Systems has filed a lawsuit in a Texas state court against radiation oncology firm Elekta, claiming that Elekta employees improperly gained access to Varian trade secret information, Elekta said.
August 28, 2012
Pitt. radiologists take back the night -- and reap the rewards
By Kate Madden Yee
In 2007, University of Pittsburgh radiologists decided that using residents for overnight coverage of emergency department CT scans was a medical anachronism. Instead, they began offering after-hours subspecialty coverage themselves, and reported on their experience in the September issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
August 28, 2012
ACR notes concern over stage 2 meaningful use rules
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American College of Radiology (ACR) has expressed concern about the final stage 2 meaningful use rules released last week.
August 27, 2012
CMS schedules amyloid PET review
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has scheduled a meeting for January 30, 2013, to review evidence on the use of beta-amyloid PET imaging for managing dementia and neurodegenerative disease.
August 27, 2012
Commercial screening tests, imaging overuse spike health costs
By Kate Madden Yee
Screening tests that are sold directly to consumers by commercial firms without physician referrals inflate healthcare costs and erode efforts to provide high-value care -- and medical imaging is a big part of the problem, according to a pair of opinion articles published on August 27 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
August 27, 2012
Simple procedures are keys to success of proton facilities
By Cynthia E. Keen
The use of proton therapy for prostate cancer patients is highly controversial because its high cost compared to other radiation therapy treatments has not been justified by superior patient outcomes. However, prostate cancer patients are essential for a proton therapy center's financial well-being.
August 27, 2012
National Health IT Week scheduled for Sept. 10
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Organizers of the seventh annual National Health IT Week, which is scheduled for September 10-14 in Washington, DC, are encouraging healthcare professionals to attend and participate in the activities and educate those in the U.S. Congress about the value of health IT.
August 27, 2012
HHS postpones ICD-10 compliance deadline to 2014
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has postponed the compliance date by one year -- to October 2014 -- for healthcare organizations to convert to the ICD-10 guidelines for coding and reporting. The original compliance date was October 1, 2013.
August 26, 2012
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