Written by Brian Dunham
Independent nuclear laboratories are under a mandate to achieve accreditation by Jan. 1, 2012, to continue receiving Medicare reimbursement. While maneuvering the varied accreditation processes requires practice management savvy—causing some practices to prolong the process—the impending deadline is approaching fast.
Written by Kaitlyn Dmyterko
A whistleblower suit filed by a Tennessee cardiologist has alleged that cardiologist Eli Hage Korban, MD, along with two Tennessee hospitals, engaged in fraudulent billing and overuse of medical services, and now the Department of Justice (DoJ) has stepped in. The current case adds to a slew of other cases surrounding the overutilization of stenting.
NEW ORLEANS—ACC tackled tough questions associated with the use of integrated cardiovascular imaging and suggested that demonstrating improved patient outcomes and cost-effectiveness is quite complex but absolutely necessary. The specialty of cardiology needs to embrace randomized controlled trials to delineate the value of and roles for cardiac imaging modalities, according to a panel of experts in an Integrated Imaging Spotlight session held Sunday at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology.
