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  • CMS Cancels Change Request 6375: Place of Service/Date of Service Instructions for Professional/Technical Component of Diagnostic Tests
    ACR Daily News Scan
    Last year Medicare released a transmittal that required physicians to report the specific date of service and place of service of where the professional and technical component is provided. The ACR is happy to announce that CMS realizes there are difficulties with complying with these new regulations and has rescinded them until further clarification can be provided.
  • 2010 CMS PQRI Continues 2% Bonus
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    The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service (CMS) 2010 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) is underway. Legislation continued the 2% bonus on total allowable Medicare charges for individual participants who successfully report quality measures in 2010.
  • ACR Responds to New York Times Articles on Adverse Events in Radiation Therapy
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    On Monday, Jan. 25, the ACR responded with a letter to the editor of the New York Times regarding a series of articles concerning adverse events associated with radiation oncology treatments performed in New York State and elsewhere.
  • February Issue of JACR Features Significant Articles Regarding Radiation Safety
    JACR News Release
    The February issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology is now online. The issue features articles on radiation safety, including efforts by the NIH to assess radiation exposure and the role of epigenetics in determining radiation risk. The issue also includes a study that examines the effectiveness of videoconferencing in engaging rural doctors in CME activities.
  • ACR to Co-Sponsor CT Dose Summit on Scan Parameter Optimization
    ACR Daily News Scan
    The ACR, along with several other organizations, is helping to fund a CT Dose Summit on Scan Parameter Optimization, organized by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, April 29- 30, 2010, in Atlanta, GA.
  • ACR Designated a National Medical Imaging Accrediting Body by CMS
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    The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has selected the American College of Radiology (ACR), the nation’s oldest and most widely recognized medical imaging and radiation oncology accrediting body, as a designated accrediting organization for medical imaging facilities, able to satisfy all accreditation requirements for providers of advanced medical imaging mandated by the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (MIPPA).
  • February Issue of AJR Features Significant Studies Regarding Women’s Health and Radiation Safety
    AJR News Release
    The February issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology, published by the American Roentgen Ray Society, is now online. The issue focuses on women's health topics including digital mammography, diagnosing early-stage ovarian cancer, and lowering CT radiation dose.
  • Brown Victory Clouds Next Move in Health Care Reform Effort
    ACR Daily News Scan
    The election of Republican Scott Brown to fill the seat of the late Edward Kennedy (D-MA) has complicated the next steps in the process to enact health care reform. Democratic lawmakers have been negotiating during the last several weeks with the White House to iron out differences between the House and Senate plans with the hope of generating one final package that both chambers would seek to pass.
  • Special ACR Statement on the Earthquake in Haiti
    Our heartfelt thoughts and prayers go out to all those directly and indirectly affected by the devastating earthquake in Haiti this week. The ACR Foundation has begun to make contact with individual radiologists who have provided service in that country. Through these contacts, the ACR Foundation will assess what direct or indirect assistance we may be able to facilitate in the affected region. For your convenience, here is a listing of international aid organizations that are working to serve the immediate needs on the ground in Haiti. Your generosity will be very much appreciated by those in need of our help.
  • ACR Statement on Airport Full-body Scanners and Radiation
    ACR Daily News Scan
    Amid concerns regarding terrorists targeting airliners using weapons less detectable by traditional means, the Transportation Security Administration is ramping up deployment of whole body scanners at security checkpoints in U.S. airports. These systems produce anatomically accurate images of the body and can detect objects and substances concealed by clothing.
  • Physician Payment Cut Delayed
    ACR Daily News Scan
    Based on the 2010 Medicare fee schedule final rule, the 21.2 percent cut to the conversion factor was scheduled to be implemented Jan. 1, 2010. However, as of December 19, 2009, Congress has passed legislation to apply a zero percent update to the conversion factor through Feb. 28, 2010.
  • Radiofrequency Ablation Safe and Effective for Reducing Pain from Bone Metastases
    ACR Daily News Scan
    Image-guided radiofrequency ablation (RFA), a minimally invasive cancer treatment which can be performed in the outpatient setting, significantly reduced the level of pain experienced by cancer patients with bone (osseous) metastases, limiting the need for strong narcotic pain management, and supporting improved patient frame of mind, according to results of an American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN) study published online in the journal Cancer.

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