Practice management involves overseeing all business aspects of a medical practice including financials, human resources, information technology, compliance, marketing and operations.
Layne Tarbox, MD, and his attorney filed the complaint Oct. 28, alleging a husband-wife pair of rads engaged in fraud at one of the Pacific Northwest's largest medical groups.
Leaders from 31 different radiology societies recently met to discuss the specialty's biggest problems, offering solutions in a newly published analysis.
Prompt diagnosis of such pneumothorax is crucial, with delays linked to longer hospital lengths of stay and greater disease progression, experts write in Academic Radiology.
Greg Murphy, MD, R-N.C., and colleagues are proposing the Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act, which would halt a 2.8% reduction to the conversion factor.
“As the use of monoclonal antibodies becomes more widespread, close collaboration between neurologists and radiologists is needed," one expert advised.
This occurred during a period when radiologists took on an increasing workload, with relative value units leaping 13.1% during the 16-year study period.
"I am incredulous that I would not have done this immediately," the general practitioner wrote in a letter to the woman, according to the recently released results of an investigation.
El Segundo, California-based RP said the recommendations are derived from current guidelines and the “extensive expertise” of its neuroradiology division.
An organization could add an additional $87,532 on one MRI machine or over $260,000 via CT each year through strategic site selection, experts estimated.
Prior to the final proposal’s release, the American College of Radiology reached out to CMS to offer its recommendations on payment rates for five out of the six the new codes.