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Medicare Quality Payment Program changes affecting radiology practices for 2025

AuntMinnie

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%.

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How to comply with CMS's CT radiation dose measure

AuntMinnie

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) contracted with the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) to develop a quality measure focused on CT. International variation in radiation dose for computed tomography examinations: prospective cohort study. 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

AuntMinnie

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) final rule for 2024. Alara Imaging is offering free HIPAA and SOC-II certified software to help physicians and health systems comply with a new radiation dose quality measure included in the U.S. CMS published the rule on November 2.

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Imaging Market Share Analysis Shows 28% of Image Interpretation Performed by Non-Radiologists

Imaging Technology

of all imaging studies for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries in 2022, with the remaining 27.9% of computed tomography (CT), 91.0% The research, published June 28 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology, JACR, was based on 123 million Medicare Part B imaging claims in 2022. of ultrasound. for CT; 99.4%

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How Much Does a PET/CT Cost?

Capitol Imaging Services

A PET/CT is the combination of PET (Positron Emission Tomography) and CT ( Computed Tomography ) scans. Having the procedure done in a hospital as an inpatient costs far more than having the same procedure done in an outpatient center such as CIS. But, first, let’s understand what a PET/CT is and why it is used.