DiagnosticImaging | The ACR called on CMS to scrap proposed payment cuts in the Medicare Fee Schedule Rule for 2012, saying the reduction is “scientifically unfounded, based on flawed assumptions and may limit patients’ ability to receive efficient care.” In a letter commenting on the proposed...
imagingBiz | Whether allying themselves with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) or working with private payors, entities may, when attempting to form accountable care organizations (ACOs), make errors that impede the success of their endeavors, write two health care policy experts. In an...
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...
HealthLeadersMedia | The Office for Civil Rights has revealed the top areas of interest on its HIPAA privacy and security compliance radar. Adam Greene, former senior health information technology and privacy advisor at OCR and now partner at the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine in Washington,...
HealthLeadersMedia | Federal health officials have released three proposed rules governing state-based insurance exchanges and premium tax credits, and Medicaid eligibility, for which an estimated 20 million people will be eligible. Officials also announced awards of $185 million to 13 states and the District of...