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How to comply with CMS's CT radiation dose measure

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) contracted with the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) to develop a quality measure focused on CT. Sites can choose to send CT studies directly from CT machines, with a routing rule in PACS, or with a DICOM router. In 2019, the U.S. 2019 Jan 2:364:k4931. JAMA Intern Med.

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Alara offers free software for MPFS quality measure compliance

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) final rule for 2024. On behalf of CMS, Alara Imaging provides the translation software for measure computation, according to Smith-Bindman. CMS published the rule on November 2.