Medicare Patient Safety Radiology 
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
JULY 17, 2024
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in its suggested 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) has proposed new CPT codes that would address additional labor involved in imaging patients who have contraindications for MRI.
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AuntMinnie
OCTOBER 31, 2023
Each year, the Minnies award winners reflect the current challenges, issues, and advances in radiology. And for the first time since 2018, physician burnout did not win the Minnies award for Biggest Threat to Radiology. Interested in the history of the Minnies, our annual award program recognizing excellence in radiology?
AuntMinnie
JUNE 5, 2024
MRI safety oversight is spotty at best, with gaps "big enough to drive a truck through," according to Tobias Gilk, founder of Gilk Radiology Consultants in Overland Park, KS, and senior vice president of Radiology-Planning in Mission, KS. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Cal/OSHA also conducted a review.
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. CMS required that this measure be designed as an electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM), the first radiology measure to be written in this format. In 2019, the U.S.
AuntMinnie
AUGUST 5, 2024
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has created new radiology patient safety electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs); these use Alara software to access data from radiology electronic health measures (EHRs).
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