on March 21, 2013 |
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Topics: Health Care Reform, Market Trends, Strategy, Payer and Regulatory Policy, Medicaid, Reimbursement, Finance, Pediatrics, Service Lines, Imaging
Ben Lauing, Imaging Performance Partnership
My colleague Robin Brand recently spoke at the Children’s Hospital Association’s Radiology Directors Forum in Houston, where she discussed several of the key forces currently impacting pediatric imaging programs. Much of the conversation focused on health care reform, and, in particular, the current state of Medicaid expansion.
While increased eligibility for Medicaid will have a disproportionate impact on children’s hospitals, as Medicaid covers a significant number of uninsured children, Medicaid expansion will impact all providers.
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Medicaid expansion’s impact on pediatric volumes, doughnut holes, and reimbursement
on February 19, 2013 |
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Topics: CT, Imaging, Service Lines, Emergency Department, Pediatrics, Appropriateness, Quality, Performance Improvement, Safety
Ben Lauing, Imaging Performance Partnership
A recent study from the Annals of Emergency Medicine seeks to prevent unnecessary CT scans and radiation exposure in pediatric patients who present with blunt torso trauma. The authors examined 12,044 children in 20 emergency departments and developed a seven step prediction rule that identifies children at low risk of needing immediate abdominal intervention.
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Seven key factors to avert a pediatric CT
on May 18, 2012 |
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Topics: Imaging, Service Lines, X-Ray, Pediatrics
Stephanie Krent, Imaging Performance Partnership
On the heels of the FDA’s recent announcement requiring more pediatric-friendly X-ray imaging devices, an article on AuntMinnie.com highlights the work of several pediatric imaging researchers in creating the Quality Improvement Registry in CT Scans in Children (QuIRCC).
The group of researchers working to develop QuIRCC hail from six hospitals: Boston Children’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Primary Children’s Hospital, Utah. The team earned a grant from the Radiologic Society of North America in 2008 to build a registry identifying dose reference ranges for pediatric imaging.
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Just don’t call them 'quirky': Researchers develop QuIRCC dose registry
