Reviewing the Rules for Imaging Centers Operated as Hospital Outpatient Departments
The Medicare rules for billing services performed in off-campus Hospital Outpatient Departments…
HAP Radiology Billing and Coding Blog
Richard Morris
06/07/2018
Helping Our Computers Help Us: Standardizing Radiology Reporting to Benefit from Emerging Technologies
In an article published in the online Journal of the American College of Radiology1, authors from…
Richard Morris
05/31/2018
What Does APM Participation Mean for a Radiology Practice?
In our recent article we explored the ways radiology groups can begin to move toward participation…
Sandy Coffta
05/18/2018
Radiology Documentation Guidelines for Optimized Coding and Reimbursement
In radiology, like all other medical specialties, proper documentation is critical to achieving…
Richard Morris
05/11/2018
First Steps Toward APM Participation for Radiologists
There’s no doubt that Medicare’s payment for physician services is moving toward a value-based…
Richard Morris
04/24/2018
Perspectives on Patient Care and Complexity for Radiology Practices
In a study published in the February 2018 issue of Academic Radiology, Dr. Andrew Rosenkrantz of…
Richard Morris
04/06/2018
2018 Budget Bill Makes Changes to MIPS
When Congress finalized the fiscal 2017 federal budget on February 9, 2018, the bill1 contained…
Sharon Taylor
03/30/2018
How Removing IVC Filters Benefits Patients and Radiology Practices Alike
Our recent article How Radiology Practices Can Drive True Quality of Care describes how the use of…
Sandy Coffta
03/27/2018
New Study Shows Structured Reporting is Preferred by Clinicians
A recent study[1] published by the Journal of the American College of Radiology concludes that…
Sharon Taylor
03/13/2018
How Radiology Practices Can Drive True Quality of Care
Radiologists often identify incidental findings. When clinically significant, communicating these…