Many hospitals and physician practices require physicians to sign noncompetition agreements as part of their employment contract. The question often raised: How binding are these agreements?
Revised health reform legislation released Feb. 22 by the White House includes a $20 billion excise tax on the medical device industry, a proposal that was vigorously opposed by the devices industry as part of the original House and Senate reform bills.
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) underscores the steep increase in diagnostic imaging usage in the United States in recent years, noting that from 1996 to 2007, there was a “more than three-fold increase in the number of visits per 100 population to physician offices and hospital outpatient departments during which MRI/CT/PET scans were ordered or provided.”
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is conducting a national “dry run” of reporting data for four outpatient imaging efficiency measures (OIE) included in the Hospital Outpatient Quality Data Reporting Program (HOP QDRP).
Many people have a favorite physician. Perhaps it is the physician who helped an ailing child with cancer, or the one who helped a family in a moment of crisis, or the physician who brought a child into the world.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced a further delay in the requirement that ordering or referring physicians be enrolled in Medicare’s Provider Enrollment Chain and Ownership System (PECOS).
The American College of Radiology has launched an online nuclear medicine and positron emission tomography (PET) accreditation application program that streamlines the process and significantly reduces the time it takes for nuclear medicine and PET facilities to become accredited.
The 10 stocks in the G-2 Reports’ Diagnostic Imaging Index fell by an unweighted average of 7 percent in the five weeks ended Feb. 26, 2010, with six stocks rising, three falling, and one virtually unchanged.
Physicians, patient advocates, and representatives of the medical imaging industry testified during a Feb. 26 congressional hearing on the benefits and risk of diagnostic imaging procedures, especially computed tomography (CT) scans.
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