Hospital Medicare Patient Safety 
AuntMinnie
JULY 26, 2024
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued its proposal for payments in 2025 under the Physician Fee Schedule (PFS), and it contains an across-the-board 2.8% This reduction in payments continues a trend that has seen the Medicare fee schedule reduced by nearly 10% over the past 10 years. Radiology -3.8% -1.8% -2.8%
AuntMinnie
JUNE 5, 2024
Gilk described his efforts to get a copy of the report about the Kaiser accident from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), the state's body for licensing hospitals and healthcare providers. It soon became clear that the CDPH may not have even been aware of the incident -- likely indicating that the hospital did not report it.
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AuntMinnie
MAY 15, 2024
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) applauded the introduction of legislation in Congress on May 15 that could radically change the way Medicare pays for radiation therapy. The bill reduces disparities that create barriers for patients from rural and underserved communities to access and complete treatments.
AuntMinnie
MARCH 25, 2025
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2023 are "ambiguous" and need to be reconsidered, according to theAmerican Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM). Radiation dose and image quality performance measures for CT imaging accepted by the U.S.
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. Administered CT radiation doses are highly variable across patients, radiologists, and hospitals throughout the U.S. In 2019, the U.S. 2 Rebecca Smith-Bindman, MD.
AuntMinnie
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
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.
AuntMinnie
OCTOBER 31, 2023
"We have the ability to distinguish between imaging that really adds value to care by guiding care decisions and improving clinical outcomes for patients, and imaging that will not have significant value impact," Menard said. Every low-value exam we avoid improves patient safety and lowers costs to patients and society."
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