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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. Smith-Bindman R, Yu S, Wang Y, et al.

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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. 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.