tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 7

RADIOLOGY: Imagine New Red Tape Around Imaging Services

New standards, self-referral rules could stymie non-radiologistsIn its March report to Congress, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission will recommend  limits on physicians ordering and interpreting   diagnostic imaging services. Under current law, the  same physician can order an imaging test and perform and interpret the results of that test. Radiologists have called for a regulation that would bar the same doctor from ordering and interpreting an imaging scan so  physicians would have to send scans to qualified radiologists to interpret.MedPAC will encourage the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to study doctors' use of...

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