tci Part B Insider - 2004 Issue 24

RADIOLOGY: Bar 'Self-Referrals'of Imaging Tests, ACR Urges CMS

Can the Centers of Medicare & Medicare Services staunch the flood of imaging services ordered by physicians who aren't radiologists? The American College of Radiology thinks so. The ACR urged CMS and the HHS Office of Inspector General to interpret the Stark II physician self-referral law more narrowly in regulations and their enforcement. If CMS agrees, it could publish new regulations that would quickly cut off many physicians from billing for imaging scans. In its late June comments on CMS' recent Stark II interim final rule, the ACR disagrees with CMS' decision to leave "services such as nuclear medicine"...

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