tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 34

PHYSICIANS: Physicians Should Prep For Applying Ultrasound Rules

Doctors may need to restructure payment arrangements soon.If the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services adds diagnostic nuclear medicine and PET scans to the list of services covered by the Stark self-referral law, then doctors will have to apply a stricter set of rules to those services, according to experts.Many observers have been expecting CMS to add diagnostic nuclear medicine and PET scans to the Stark list for a while, according to Washington, DC attorney Kevin McAneney. "They basically went back and decided that imaging was imaging," whether it was an ultrasound or a PET scan...

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