tci Part B Insider - 2005 Issue 29

COMPLIANCE: Prepare Your Front Lines For Applying Ultrasound Rules To PET Scans

Restructuring your payment arrangements could be just around the cornerIf the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services adds diagnostic nuclear medicine and PET scans to the list of services covered by the Stark self-referral law, then you'll have to apply a stricter set of rules to those services, say 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, he...

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