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%

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Medicare Radiology Interventional Radiology Nuclear Medicine 105

AuntMinnie

JUNE 5, 2024

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). 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. Although the CDPH did begin an investigation, it ended up referring the case to the U.S. Cal/OSHA also conducted a review.

MRI 136

MRI Public Health Hospital Medicare 136

AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) final rule for 2024. The measure provides a standardized method for monitoring radiation dose across patients and facilities, Smith-Bindman said. CMS published the rule on November 2.

Computed Tomography 64

Computed Tomography Radiation Medicare Inpatient 64

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.

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Radiation Computed Tomography DICOM Hospital 93

AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 31, 2023

In an interview with AuntMinnie.com , Menias said, “The report is our deliverable and primary way of communicating their findings to them as patients and to their medical care provider.” Cooky’s tough love: It takes time to become an excellent radiologist. Learn from your mistakes and the mistakes of others.

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Radiology Education Medicare Clinic 132

AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 10, 2023

A brief background: When AI first was introduced, it was introduced as a product that was better than and would replace radiologists. The sole exception might be as a first-line review of screening mammography cases (but still reviewed and signed off on by a radiologist) and tuberculosis (TB) screening in third-world countries.

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PACS Insurance Radiologist IT 111

AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

To ensure that medical radiation dose is minimized, unnecessary radiation exposure is eliminated, and a culture of safety pervades U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that begins in January 2012. healthcare facilities, the commission will rely in part on requirements from the U.S.

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Radiation Medical Diagnostic Imaging Medicare 59