AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Neiman Health Policy Institute in Reston, VA, found that office ultrasound services have been mostly performed by radiologists while hospital outpatient and inpatient services have been performed more by cardiologists and cardiac surgeons. for the inpatient setting. and inpatient settings from 25.1% from 2009 to 2021.

Ultrasound 290

Ultrasound Radiologist Inpatient Medicare 290

AuntMinnie

MARCH 7, 2025

Radiology practices often participate in the Medicare Quality Payment Program (QPP) through the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has made a change to remove that cap, which means that such measures will receive the full 10 points. The completeness criteria remain at 75%.

Medicare 191

Medicare Radiology Radiation Computed Tomography 191

AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The use of both cardiac CT and cardiac MRI increased in the Medicare population over the past seven years, according to research presented November 29 at the RSNA meeting. per 1,000 Medicare enrollees in 2013 to 3.2 per 10,000 Medicare enrollees in 2013 to 8.4 The cardiac CT exam use rate increased from 1.1

Radiologist 325

Radiologist MRI Medicare Inpatient 325

AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In clinical care, amyloid PET scans are used to diagnose and manage Alzheimer’s disease patients based on the amounts of beta-amyloid plaque the scans reveal in the brain. The group included 6,848 participants who had been recruited at 595 clinical sites that provide specialty memory care across the U.S.

PET Scan 277

PET Scan Medicare Inpatient Hospital 277

AuntMinnie

AUGUST 22, 2024

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) federal fiscal year (FY) 2025 Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) final rule includes several radiology-relevant topics, according to a detailed summary from the American College of Radiology (ACR). The CMS finalized a 2.9% The CMS finalized a 2.9%

Inpatient 130

Inpatient Radiology Hospital Medicare 130

AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) final rule for 2024. CMS has mandated that the measure be an electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM), reflecting the agency's focus on electronically-extracted measures that require little to no physician input.

Computed Tomography 162

Computed Tomography Radiation Medicare Inpatient 162

AuntMinnie

JUNE 27, 2024

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) contracted with the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) to develop a quality measure focused on CT. CMS required that this measure be designed as an electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM), the first radiology measure to be written in this format. In 2019, the U.S.

Radiation 233

Radiation Computed Tomography DICOM Hospital 233