Diagnostic Imaging Intelligence Report
Diagnostic Imaging Intelligence Report (DIIR) is a monthly newsletter which covers new business opportunities in the lucrative field of medical imaging. Each issue gives you concise, up-to-date analysis to help you anticipate key market trends and increase your facility’s revenues with proven growth and cost reduction strategies. DIIR is written for medical imaging providers and for professionals such as directors of radiology, chief operating officers, radiology administrators, branch managers, and others in for-profit, free-standing diagnostic imaging centers, radiology group practices or hospital-based medical imaging outpatient departments.
July 2009 - Table of Contents
Evidence on computed tomography colonography—known as virtual colonoscopy—is insufficient to conclude that it improves health benefits for average-risk Medicare beneficiaries and it will remain uncovered by Medicare, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has determined.
Practice expense changes under the Medicare physician fee schedule and the prevalence of nonradiologist specialists performing interventional radiology (IR) procedures are having a negative effect on Medicare reimbursement for outpatient IR services, concludes a new study.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will share data on new imaging efficiency measures with hospitals later in 2009, prior to their use for 2010 payment determination, a CMS contractor said May 20.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) should not judge the appropriateness of a physician’s use of imaging strictly by the level of frequency, callers participating in a May 27 teleconference on the development of a $10 million data collection project told agency officials.
Medicare reimbursement for interventional radiology procedures performed in an outpatient setting is declining significantly largely as a result of practice expense reductions under the Medicare physician fee schedule, according to a new study published in the June issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
MedQuest Associates, a Georgia-based medical imaging company, improperly billed Medicare for certain diagnostic tests conducted at imaging centers in Tennessee, federal prosecutors alleged in a complaint announced May 22 (United States ex rel. Hobbs v. MedQuest Associates Inc.).
Despite a difficult first quarter of 2009, many U.S. hospital radiology administrators expect to see their capital equipment budgets freed up to allow the acquisition of key diagnostic imaging equipment later this year, according to a newly released study of 250 U.S. hospitals by IMV Limited (Des Plaines, Ill.).
The number of procedures performed at U.S. cardiac cath labs declined about 11 percent between 2006 and 2008, from 4.21 million to 3.75 million, according to a new report from IMV Limited (Des Plaines, Ill.).
The 10 stocks in the G-2 Report’s Diagnostic Imaging Index rose by an unweighted average of 19 percent in the three weeks ended May 22, 2009, with seven stocks rising and three falling. Since the beginning of the year, the index has risen 21 percent.
The Access to Medical Imaging Coalition (AMIC) has unveiled a new Web platform designed to demonstrate the imaging community’s support for public policy that ensures patients have access to diagnostic imaging services.
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