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The New Economics of Radiation Oncology
... of cancer diagnoses will be made in persons eligible for Medicare. Exacerbating the issue is the lack of a link between treatment ... of the National Cancer Institute found no link between Medicare spending on advanced cancer and survival. “Most new advanced cancer ...
mrivera - 2013-05-06 09:56
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Mammo’s Missing: Underserved & Overlooked
... study, published April 2013 in Managed Care, focused on Medicare beneficiaries at 142 facilities with patient populations that included ...
mrivera - 2013-05-03 09:51
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Patient Management: When ICD Leads Go Awry
... study modeling costs of ICD lead management in the U.S., Medicare will spend approximately $287 million over five years on the ...
mrivera - 2013-05-02 09:36
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Paperless Power: Lightening Admin Burden with EHRs
... rewards the HITECH Act offers, which can be substantial. The Medicare EHR incentive program, for instance, provided up to $44,000 to ...
mrivera - 2013-04-18 17:42
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A Merger in Maine
... in a pilot across the U.S. for imaging appropriate use (Medicare imaging demonstration). Even billing has improved. We treat all ...
mrivera - 2013-03-05 09:13
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Florbetapir: Alzheimer’s Imaging Inches Into Practice
... is lack of reimbursement. Currently, neither the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services nor private payers reimburse for florbetapir ... there is no proven treatment if results are positive, Medicare is asking how the results of a florbetapir scan are going to change ...
mrivera - 2013-03-04 13:07
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Value-based Purchasing: What It Means for Performance Evaluation
... The RVU is a familiar productivity formula. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) determine a relative value for each imaging ...
mrivera - 2013-03-04 13:01
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Ill Repute: Maintaining Your Good Name in Adversity
... affected patients and paid fines to settle claims of billing Medicare for unnecessary services. But to fully recover from the incident, ...
mrivera - 2013-02-27 14:45
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Childhood CT scanning linked with increased cancer incidence
... from CT scans. The researchers mined Australian Medicare records and identified 10.9 million people aged 0-19 years on Jan. 1, ...
lfratt - 2013-05-24 16:56
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Radiologist assistant reimbursement bill introduced in House
... Rep. Dave Reichert (R-WA) has introduced HR 1148, The Medicare Access to Radiology Care Act of 2013. The bill would recognize ... assistants (RAs) as non-physician providers of services to Medicare beneficiaries and allow RAs to perform services, where authorized, ...
egodt - 2013-05-24 11:21