Dear Imaging Leaders Insider,
Time is running out for imaging facilities to get accredited before the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act (MIPPA) of 2008 goes into effect. In less than six months, all healthcare providers who bill for the technical component of advanced imaging services must be accredited to get reimbursed by Medicare.
Imaging facilities still scrambling to get the process rolling have an obvious set of problems. But the legislation itself may have less obvious consequences, according to this issue's Insider Exclusive. Click here to find out how MIPPA could negatively affect you -- as an Insider subscriber, you get access to the article before the rest of our readers.
When you've finished reading our featured article, check out other news in the Imaging Leaders Digital Community:
- Get the scoop on the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' latest plan to manage imaging costs by cutting the professional component of advanced imaging procedures.
- Find out why three hospitals in the Mercy Health Partners system have revised their contract with radiology management and image interpretation services firm Imaging Advantage.
- Discover why routine lung screening of heavy smokers and former smokers using low-dose CT scans could set off a heated cost debate.
- Read what Dr. Gary Becker, executive director of the American Board of Radiology, has to say about the integrity of certification exams.
- Find out why the Illinois attorney general has filed a lawsuit against a CT scanning chain.
If you have a comment or report to share about any aspect of diagnostic imaging practice, management, administration, regulation, or financing, please contact me.
