Politics may be local, but in the world of lobbying and campaign finance, money goes where it can have the most influence, which is why radiologists Milton Wolf, MD, and George Flinn, MD. will not receive support from RADPAC.

Just in time for your summer reading pleasure, the ACR has posted detailed summaries of the proposed rules for the 2015 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and the 2015 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System.

It could have (and has) been worse, but an overall 2% reduction in Medicare reimbursement paid under the MPFS will have repercussions for any radiology practice. That’s the overall impact of practice expense (PE) RVU changes (and a slightly lower conversion factor) contained in the proposed 2015 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule.

CMS identified 80 more potentially “misvalued” codes in its proposed 2015 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS), and 20% pertain to radiology. Mammography, chest x-ray, x-ray of the knee are all on the hit list, and you can thank PACS for that.

On April 9, 2014, CMS released its Medicare Provider Utilization and Payment Data, a dataset representing an aggregation of 2012 volume, charge, and payment information by physician, by CPT code, by place of service—more than 9 million records.

Healthcare in the U.S. is shifting toward management of population health, and several models for radiology practice involvement have emerged

An act of Congress opened the door for clinical decision-support for advanced imaging in U.S. hospitals: The radiologist is key to the initiative’s success

Just six months after implementation of the new electronic funds transfer (EFT) operating rules, the Medical Group Management Association has dashed off a letter to the CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner complaining that payors and clearinghouses are charging unreasonable fees to providers for EFT transactions, asking for guidance from the agency.