AuntMinnie

MARCH 18, 2025

Its also going to save Medicare money. Along with the government relations committee, this includes membership roles on the ASTRO PAC Board, the Mega Issue Working Group, and the ASTRO Rural Task Force. We think its good for medicine and think its good for patients. Corso has served in several roles for ASTRO.

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Ben White

MAY 9, 2023

That will be the time when the government/Medicare/national organizations start advocating against the currently protected role that radiologists hold for imaging interpretation. The invention of PACS was a singular event that changed the field of radiology.

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Radiologist PACS Image Interpretation Radiology 331

AuntMinnie

MARCH 12, 2025

Practice expenses (PEs) account for a majority of the total Medicare reimbursement for radiology services, but calculations used to determine payments are either outdated or don't account for the specialty's needs, according to a paper published March 11 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 15, 2024

The trend will be for more AI systems that perfectly integrate with PACS and RIS to make radiology practices more cost-effective. reimbursement and incentives for new AI-powered technologies have not been set, but the shortage of healthcare workers is often more pronounced, so the need may be greater. "The

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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. 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.

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Radiation Computed Tomography DICOM Hospital 232

Imaging Technology

AUGUST 9, 2024

2 To ensure proper patient safety, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has established a standardized method to monitor the performance of diagnostic CTs to discourage unnecessarily high radiation doses with the creation of new radiology patient safety electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs).

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Picture Archiving and Communication System Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine Computed Tomography Quality and Compliance 52

Intelerad

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

According to a recent article from Radiology Business, nearly 3,500 physician practices that provide radiology services disappeared from the Medicare Provider Data Log between 2015 and 2022. Of the associated physicians from these disappearing practices, 46% of them moved to a large multispecialty group.

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