Practice Management: Page 943

Radiology group settles charges of Medicare fraud
By Brian Casey
June 29, 2004
OmniSonics taps Kulis as VP
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Anne Kulis brings to OmniSonics more than 15 years of experience.
June 28, 2004
Alliance nets NHS contract for MR waiting list
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Imaging services provider Alliance Medical has been awarded a five-year contract by the National Health Service (NHS) to tackle England's MRI waiting lists, according to the Oxfordshire, U.K.-based firm.
June 28, 2004
Ultrasound education goes global
By Eric Barnes
MONTREAL - On Monday at the International Congress of Radiology, Dr. Barry Goldberg, director of diagnostic ultrasound at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, talked about the state of ultrasound education in the world, and the steps being taken to fulfill the vast need for medical imaging services.
June 28, 2004
Radiology group pays $2.5 million to settle alleged Medicare fraud
By Tracie L. Thompson
A radiology group in southwest Florida has agreed to pay the U.S. government more than $2.53 million to settle allegations that it filed false Medicare claims -- allegations first lodged in a whistleblower lawsuit by the practice's former Medicare coding supervisor.
June 28, 2004
InSiteOne promotes executives
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Archiving services firm InSiteOne has promoted two executives to new positions at the Wallingford, CT, company.
June 27, 2004
Making the most of CT technology through efficient workflow
By Shalmali Pal
SAN FRANCISCO - The goal of a successful CT department should be to acquire more scans, not more scanners, through proper workflow management, according to a presentation at the International Symposium on Multidetector-Row CT, sponsored by Stanford University of Stanford, CA.
June 27, 2004
U.K. radiographers find time, and history, on their side
By Eric Barnes
MONTREAL - Bolstered by strong organizational skills and an acute demand for their services, radiographers in the U.K. are increasingly performing duties so medically advanced as to seem almost heretical by the workday standards of non-radiologists in the U.S. Even "radiographer," an English term that translates poorly into American usage, has a certain ring to it that "technologist," or even "radiologist assistant," clearly lacks.
June 26, 2004
In Canada, breast screening programs yield better outcomes
By Eric Barnes
MONTREAL - As in the rest of the world, breast cancer is the most common cause of cancer among Canadian women. But Canada has comprehensive breast cancer screening programs in each of its provinces and territories save for Nunavut. Could this enormous national screening and follow-up effort, begun in 1992, be part of the reason death rates are starting to fall?
June 25, 2004
Centralized scheduling brings efficiency, convenience
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
Patricia Kroken, president of Albuquerque, NM-based Healthcare Resource Providers, shared her expertise in scheduling process efficiencies during an American Healthcare Radiology Administrators teleconference earlier this month.
June 24, 2004
InSight files for IPO of income deposit securities
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The parent of imaging services provider InSight Health Services, InSight Health Services Holdings, has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of income deposit securities (IDSs).
June 23, 2004
CT, radiation, and risk: two views
By Eric Barnes
SAN FRANCISCO - As the potential for radiation overexposure rises with increasingly powerful multislice CT scanners, how much attention should radiologists be paying to the risks of radiation? Two radiologists addressed the issue in a point-counterpoint discussion at this week's International Symposium on Multidetector-Row CT.
June 23, 2004
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