Practice Management: Page 517

Texas rad practice pays fine for US double billing
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A radiology practice in Texas has agreed to pay an $800,000 fine to settle charges that it billed twice for the reading and interpretation of genetic ultrasound exams.
March 11, 2013
HIMSS 2013 attendance falls 6.3%
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Attendance fell 6.3% at the 2013 edition of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) meeting in New Orleans, compared with the previous year's show in Las Vegas.
March 11, 2013
NFL tackles brain injury; does MRI make techs sad? And, how do rads look on TV?
By Brian Casey
March 11, 2013
'Unfair' regulatory stance on radiotracers poses threat to PET's future
By Becky McCall
VIENNA - Legal and regulatory issues surrounding the production and uses of radiotracers represent a significant threat to PET imaging, a senior luminary told ECR 2013 attendees at Sunday's professional challenges session on the legal matters related to multimodality techniques.
March 10, 2013
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A 3-piece jigsaw: patient, radiologist, clinician. But do they fit together?
By Becky McCall
VIENNA - The delicate balance of power and complex set of interactions between radiologists, patients, and clinicians was the subject of some lively and frank discussion at Sunday's professional challenges session, which followed a novel and original format, at ECR 2013.
March 10, 2013
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High-field MRI exposure linked to techs' depression
By Wayne Forrest
VIENNA - As MRI continues to advance to greater magnet strengths to uncover mysteries in the body, researchers warned on Monday at ECR 2013 that constant exposure to high-field systems could lead to psychological problems such as clinical depression among MRI technologists.
March 10, 2013
CT colonography screening bill reintroduced in House
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
U.S. Rep. Ralph Hall (R-TX) and co-sponsor Rep. Danny Davis (D-IL) have reintroduced HR 991, the CT Colonography Screening for Colorectal Cancer Act.
March 10, 2013
CMS: 2% Medicare fee-for-service cuts begin April 1
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said that all claims from healthcare providers for Medicare fee-for-service program reimbursement will be subject to a 2% reduction, effective April 1.
March 10, 2013
ECR 2013
Toshiba Medical Systems is highlighting "green" technology powering its ultrasound scanners.
March 10, 2013
IAC solicits research award proposals
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC) Research Committee is inviting proposals regarding accreditation and quality improvement for the 2013 IAC Research Award Program.
March 10, 2013
CMS reconsiders oncology PET tracer coverage limitations
By Erik L. Ridley
As it had proposed in December, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has removed a national noncoverage determination for radiopharmaceuticals with oncology PET imaging. However, CMS was not swayed by lobbying efforts to also include cardiac and neurological applications in the decision.
March 7, 2013
Is visibility the only way to save radiology?
By Eric Barnes
VIENNA - Visibility is the shield that can protect radiology against the slings and arrows steadily lining up against it, according to experts who spoke at a professional challenges session on Friday at ECR 2013.
March 7, 2013
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