Practice Management: Page 553

ACR to offer appropriateness criteria for EHRs
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American College of Radiology (ACR) has entered into an exclusive agreement with the National Decision Support Company to provide the technical platform, support, and licensing of the ACR Appropriateness Criteria under the name ACR Select.
July 10, 2012
Ga. hospital seeks gag order, venue change in mammo case
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Houston Healthcare of Warner Robins, GA, is seeking a gag order and change of venue in lawsuits filed over allegations that a radiologic technologist wrongly entered negative results for mammograms that were not reviewed by a doctor, according to an article in the Telegraph.
July 10, 2012
MetisMD offers Web-based 2nd opinions
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
MetisMD announced it has launched a Web-based, on-demand radiology second opinion service.
July 9, 2012
CMS to radiology: More pain ahead; how rad admins saw it coming
By Brian Casey
July 9, 2012
QuadraMed partner attains meaningful use
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Healthcare IT firm QuadraMed's longstanding partner, New York City Health and Hospitals, has successfully attested to achieving meaningful use stage 1 in all of its 11 hospitals using QuadraMed's Computerized-Patient Record meaningful use and interoperability package.
July 9, 2012
ACR's RLI launches Harvard seminar
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American College of Radiology's (ACR) Radiology Leadership Institute (RLI) has debuted its first Harvard Emerging Leaders Seminar, a Web-based program that offers a Harvard Business Publishing curriculum in an online cohort-based setting designed for radiology professionals.
July 9, 2012
ACR looks to retool annual meeting with broader focus
By Brian Casey
The American College of Radiology (ACR) plans to change the focus of its annual meeting, opening the conference to all of its members in 2015 and broadening its content in hopes of creating an event that attracts 3,000 to 5,000 attendees to Washington, DC, each May.
July 9, 2012
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MICI: Rad administrators bearish on Medicare payment rates
By Kate Madden Yee
Radiology administrators are confident that in the coming months their facilities will grow and operating and staff costs will remain constant. But they're not as confident about Medicare reimbursement for diagnostic and interventional imaging, according to new data from the Medical Imaging Confidence Index (MICI).
July 9, 2012
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ASTRO critiques CMS payment cuts for rad therapy
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) roundly criticized a proposed rule released on July 6 by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that would cut payment for radiation oncology services by 15%.
July 8, 2012
New CMS fee schedule hits radiology, radiation oncology
By Kate Madden Yee
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed a new Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for 2013 that will slash payments to radiologists by 4% and radiation oncologists by 15%. The proposal would also expand to other medical specialties a controversial policy on imaging contiguous body parts.
July 8, 2012
Calif. radiation reporting fix-up bill sent to governor
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
AB 510, the California bill that amends the California Radiation Protection Act that took effect on July 1, passed the state Legislature on Thursday and was sent to Gov. Jerry Brown for his signature at the close of the workday.
July 5, 2012
ASRT, Rad-Aid craft fellowship program
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) Education and Research Foundation and Rad-Aid International have created the new Radiologist Technologist Fellowship Program for Developing Countries.
July 4, 2012
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