on April 30, 2013 |
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Topics: Imaging, Service Lines, CT, MRI, Revenue Cycle, Finance, Revenue Capture, Denials Management, Patient Scheduling and Registration
Shaun Lillard, Imaging Performance Partnership
Did you know over 70% of Imaging Performance Partnership members have made improvements to their preauthorization process in the past few years?
Over the past few months, our blog has featured a number of posts on preauthorization practices, regulations, and strategies. Topic polls of member organizations consistently show a high degree of interest for the topic.
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Webconference alert: Mastering the Preauthorization Process
on January 4, 2013 |
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Topics: Imaging, Service Lines, CT, MRI, Reimbursement, Finance, Medicare
Shaun Lillard, Imaging Performance Partnership
The American Taxpayer Relief Act passed the House of Representatives late Tuesday night to avert the fiscal cliff, but Medicare did not go untouched. The last-minute “Doc-Fix”, preventing a 26.5% cut to the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) for physicians was again offset by cuts to other Medicare programs.
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Fiscal cliff deal prevents SGR cuts at expense of EUR—Implications for imaging
on November 6, 2012 |
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Topics: Medicaid, Reimbursement, Finance, Imaging, Service Lines, CT, MRI, Referral Management, Physician Issues
Shaun Lillard, Imaging Performance Partnership
A report last week from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the nonpartisan investigatory and auditing agency for Congress, found that in 2010 providers for advanced imaging services made close to 400,000 more referrals than they otherwise would have if they had not held a financial interest in the imaging equipment.
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Self-referrals in advanced imaging services costing Medicare millions
