tci Part B Insider - 2004 Issue 25

RADIOLOGY: Interventional Radiologists May Be Punished by Stark Crackdown

SIR 'caught in the middle' between treating docs, radiologists The law of unintended consequences is alive and well in Radiology today. The American College of Radiology wants the Centers for Medicare for Medicare Services to narrow its exceptions in the Stark II self-referral law to make it harder for physicians to operate their own diagnostic imaging tests (see PBI, 5.24). But this move would make it impossible for interventional radiologists to treat patients and also order scans, warns the Society for Interventional Radiology. That's because no physician could be on both the referring and receiving end of imaging...

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