imagingBiz | A comprehensive anti-fraud initiative undertaken by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) under health reform law will soon force some physicians in the Medicare program to revalidate their individual enrollment records, the agency has announced. CMS will gradually send revalidation requests by...
imagingBiz | Optimism and uncertainties on the health care front color updated budget projections released by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Wednesday. The CBO is forecasting a $1.3 trillion federal deficit for 2011, $116 billion lower than had been projected in a budget update issued in...
imagingBiz | The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on Tuesday announced a new plan offering bundled payments to physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers. As set forth in the Affordable Care Act, bundled payments comprise remuneration for a given patient’s entire episode of...
DiagnosticImaging | Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you might’ve heard about a need for cost-cutting in health care. Our esteemed politicians tell us that all options are on the table, and that they’re looking for ideas. Just on the off-chance that they actually...
DiagnosticImaging | Now is the time to speak up. That's the message from Maggie Sayre, executive director of the Association for Quality Imaging in Washington, D.C. Everyone from radiologists to technologists must address upcoming health care changes, as the imaging industry reels from — and faces probable...