Adding a coronary CT angiography (CCTA) program to your emergency department can help save hundreds of thousands of dollars a year by reducing unnecessary admissions and mitigating the medicolegal expenses resulting from misdiagnoses. The upfront equipment costs are daunting, however, as are ongoing expenses in the form of both technologist

After reviewing a proposed arrangement pursuant to which a company would handle the processing and submission of insurance preauthorizations for various imaging services for the benefit of multiple imaging centers, the HHS OIG concluded that it would not penalize the arrangement, even though it did not qualify under any safe harbor of the federal

The October 2008 ImagingBiz.com article Keep Payors Honest With the Practice Receivable System concentrated on advanced techniques for monitoring the insurance companies that compensate radiologists for their clinical services. This article will move the telescope a little farther away to illustrate quick ways to check how the revenue system is

In November 13, 2008, GE Healthcare, Waukesha, Wis, hosted a webinar entitled Interpreting the Future of Medical Imaging. Offering insights into the future of the field were Bob Maier, president and CEO, and Brian Baker, senior vice president, Regents Health Resources, Brentwood, Tenn.

You have, no doubt, heard the story about the quiet, loyal employee with many years of service to the business who one day sends his boss a postcard from Rio de Janiero, saying that he’s not coming back. Then the owner discovers that a large amount from accounts receivable is missing.

Asking customers what they need is one of the best ways of retaining their business, in the experience of Frank J. Lexa, MD, MBA. Lexa is clinical professor of radiology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia; professor and Asia regional manager of The Global Consulting Practicum and adjunct professor, department of marketing, The

The story of Summit Radiology is in some respects archetypal: the story of the modern radiology practice. Responding to changes in the health care regulatory and reimbursement environment in the late 1960s, staff radiologists at St Joseph and Lutheran Hospitals in Fort Wayne, Ind, formed Allen County Radiology Associates, Inc, and CFB Radiology,

On November 19, 2008, CMS issued the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) for calendar year 2009. Consistent with the CMS trend of introducing substantive regulatory changes in payment rules, the MPFS Rule contained a number of significant revisions, including the closely watched anti-markup provisions applicable to diagnostic services other than