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Each month in the Radiology Administrator's Compliance & Reimbursement Insider, you get strategies and techniques used by leading hospitals, medical groups, and imaging centers to comply with Medicare, Medicaid, and other regulatory requirements. Now with free eTools!

October 1, 2006 (Volume 3, Issue 10)	view entire issue

Creating the PACS support team
Consider the following hypothetical situation:In the spirit of keeping up with the Joneses, your hospital system decides to renovate the east wing, purchase two new magnetic resonance imagery systems and a PET/CT, upgrade the hospital's entire computer system, and implement a PACS. Oh, and by the way-because you're the imaging director, it's your job to make sure that all of these systems work.

Save a life: Take seven simple steps to avoid medication mistakes
Patients readying themselves for the latest diagnostic radiology scan should be wary of the potential harm of medication errors in the radiology department. That's what the U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) suggested in its five-year report released in January, calling radiology errors seven times more harmful than errors in other areas of medical practice.

Understanding the intricacies of sonogram billing

Other recently-published articles from Radiology Administrator's Compliance and Reimbursement Insider:

IDTF rules for physician offices nixed for 2009

NRC expands definition of byproduct material

RACRI 2008 index

Tips to obtain payment, despite plan denials

CMS issues test order signature clarification

Address test order protocol in hospital setting

ICD-10 execution date proposed: October 1, 2011

2009 MPFS offers imaging implications

MIPPA mandates imaging accreditation for all providers

Technologists play a major role in the revenue cycle

Common elements found in CIAs

Self-disclosure protocol clarified

Eight tips to improve MRI throughput

IDTFs get Claims Processing Manual chapter of their own

Medicare preserves local coverage determination for CCTA

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