Practice Management: Page 545

Florida RT gets 30 years for tampering with syringes
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Former radiologic technologist (RT) Steven Beumel has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for one count of tampering with a consumer product resulting in death, four counts of tampering with a consumer product resulting in serious bodily injury, and five counts of stealing fentanyl by deception, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida.
September 11, 2012
Chang on informatics; Lexa on healthcare reform; SPECT/CT guides node excision
By Brian Casey
September 10, 2012
A rocky road awaits radiologists during Obamacare rollout
By James Brice
SAN FRANCISCO - Higher taxes, lower reimbursement, and more federal control over the use of advanced imaging in clinical practice. Dr. Frank J. Lexa used these terms to describe a dark vision of radiology after healthcare reform at the 2012 California Radiological Society annual meeting.
September 10, 2012
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UPMC, staffing agencies sued in Kwiatkowski case
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
UPMC health system and two medical staffing agencies have been sued by a Kansas woman who claims she was infected with hepatitis C because the defendants failed to notify authorities that traveling radiologic technologist David Kwiatkowski had been fired in 2008 for allegedly stealing drugs from the hospital.
September 9, 2012
ASTRO asks CMS to halt planned payment cuts
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A letter to the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is the American Society for Radiation Oncology's (ASTRO) latest push in its campaign to stop proposed payment cuts of nearly $300 million scheduled to begin next near.
September 9, 2012
GAO names Boone to HIT post
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has appointed Christopher Boone to fill the vacancy on the Health Information Technology (HIT) Policy Committee, one of three committee positions held by advocates for patients or consumers.
September 9, 2012
Imaging Interoperability: Part 1 -- New options
By Jef Williams, Jonathan Shoemaker
AuntMinnie.com presents the first in a two-part series from Jonathan Shoemaker and Jef Williams of Ascendian Healthcare Consulting. In part 1, the authors explain how vendor-neutral archives can provide much-needed interoperability in today's tumultuous healthcare environment.
September 6, 2012
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SNMMI announces fellowship winners
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) has announced the three recipients of the 2012-2014 SNMMI Wagner-Torizuka Fellowship.
September 4, 2012
2 technologists read VC studies as well as 1 radiologist
By Eric Barnes
When it comes to reading virtual colonoscopy studies, a radiologic technologist is no match for a trained radiologist. But two technologists are another matter entirely: They were equivalent to, and maybe slightly better than, a single radiologist, according to a new study in Radiology.
September 4, 2012
Unhealthy habits boost colorectal cancer among poor
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Unhealthy lifestyles among poorer individuals in the U.S. appear to be linked with an increase in colorectal cancers, according to a new study published on September 4 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
September 3, 2012
Imaging use in Medicare is down, but will the feds take heed?
By Kate Madden Yee
Medicare payments for noninvasive diagnostic imaging exams are down 21% compared with their peak in 2006, reports a new study in the September issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology. But are federal policymakers paying attention?
September 3, 2012
News report: Kwiatkowski investigated in 2006
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A news report indicates that former New Hampshire radiologic technologist David Kwiatkowski was investigated in 2006 in Michigan on suspicion that he stole fentanyl while working for the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor.
August 30, 2012
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