AHRA’s 2016 Spring Conference is currently underway in Chicago, and attendees were able to catch up on some of the imaging industry’s many regulatory issues today thanks to a detailed presentation from Sheila Sferrella, Regent Health Resources senior vice president and former AHRA president, and Melody W. Mulaik, president and Co-Founder of Coding Strategies, Inc.

Terry Bucknall, CRA, director of women's imaging services at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital's Sheila R. Veloz Breast Center shares her thoughts on both the present and the future of the breast imaging industry.

The National Medical Association is joining the American College of Radiology (ACR) and other advocacy groups in a call to Congress to pass the CT Colonography Screening for Colorectal Cancer Act (HR 4632). 

Implementing a preauthorization policy can lead to increased utilization of after-hours CT, according to a recent Canadian study published in Academic Radiology. The one exception to that rule, the study said, is some neurological examinations.

FDA policy changes have led to an increase in class I medical device recalls related to radiology, proving that such policy changes can improve both the profession’s safety and its quality, according to a recent study published by the Journal of the American College of Radiology. 

Practice leaders are aware that the Affordable Care Act requires repayment of an overpayment within 60 days of identifying it and that retaining an overpayment may result in significant penalties under the False Claims Act.

While OP-10 is a useful quality metric for radiology, it contains some significant limitations, according to a recent study published by the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Radiographs of the ankle, hip and knee getting coded as mammograms; a popular code-assist product failing right out of the gate and remaining troublesome months later; small billing companies shuttering their offices, leaving physician practices without any billing services at all. These are some of the scenarios reported in the wake of the Oct. 1, 2015, launch of the 10th revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10).