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.

WITS(MD), a Middleton, Wis.-based imaging software company, announced this week that it has officially changed its name to ImageMoverMD as part of a new re-branding initiative. The change is effective immediately.

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).

Former Merge Healthcare CEO Justin Dearborn was named the CEO of Tribune Publishing Co. on Feb. 23.

The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (CTFPHC) released its colorectal cancer screening recommendations this week, stating that colonoscopy should not be used as a screening test. 

WALTHAM, Mass., Feb. 23, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Candescent Healthannounced the expansion of its contract with Sheridan Healthcare, Inc. to improve clinical consistency, increase physician efficiencies, and drive greater healthcare value for its hospital partners and patients. Sheridan will expand Candescent Health’s service to its practice in South Florida and create a network of more than 150 radiologists covering over 2 million radiology studies. 

Countless healthcare providers of every type heaved a sigh of relief when CMS announced a one-year grace period following the Oct. 1, 2015, launch of ICD-10.