The flurry of attention and concern over decreased reimbursement intensified this past week with the recent CMS announcement calling for new Medicare Physician Fee Schedule rules that would raise the assumed utilization rate for outpatient services from 50 to 90 percent for imaging equipment with
Read MoreWhen it comes to the radiology reading, one of the weakest links is the lack of access to patient information. To provide an accurate read, radiologists should have patient information as well as current and prior imaging studies. As a radiologist, the typical patient clinical
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Recent discussions around health care finance have raised the possibility of another round of cuts in imaging reimbursement that could be further-reaching than even the DRA of 2005. Further cuts might seem excessive, as they would kick in at a time when early reports are indicating
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I recently attended Les Journées Françaises de Radiologie (JFR) in Paris, where I spoke with numerous health care providers attending the show.
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We are all familiar with the problem: Hospitals cannot easily share medical imaging exams because different vendors’ PACS platforms cannot easily communicate with each other. Radiologists are then forced to use different health care sites or workstations to read exams. This is not exactly a model
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