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September 2, 2008

Comments on CMS Proposed 2009 Hospital Outpatient Payment Rule 

 

September 2, 2008

Philips Comments on Medicare’s Proposed 2009 Physician Fee Schedule 

 

August 28, 2008
United Healthcare Extends Deadline for Accreditation as a Condition of Reimbursement to 4th Quarter 2009

 

July 31, 2008

Final 2009 Medicare Inpatient Hospital Payment Rule Released

 

July 14, 2008

2009 Hospital Outpatient and ASC Payment Rates Proposed by CMS

 

June 30, 2008

CMS Releases Proposed Rule for the 2009 Physician Fee Schedule

 

June 7, 2008

ACR Provides Information on Coding CAD for MRI of the Breast

 

May 24, 2008

Innovative Program Unites Hospitals to Reduce Critical Care Physician Shortage 

 

May 23, 2008

CMS Opens Coverage Review for Virtual Colonoscopy 

 

April 17, 2008

CMS Proposes Payment Increases, Policy Changes for 2009 Inpatient Services

 

April 16, 2008

CMS Considers Request For Full Coverage of PET for All Types of Cancer

 

March 13, 2008

CMS Withdraws Proposal to Significantly Reduce Coverage of Cardiac CTA

 

March 7, 2008

New advertisement in value-of-imaging campaign targets Congress

 

February 11, 2008

UnitedHealth Group extends echo lab accreditation deadline

 

February 5, 2008

Tennessee BCBS announces coverage for PET oncology applications

 

February 4, 2008
Illinois BCBS announces coverage for PET applications

 

January 30, 2008
Magellan/NIA announces program on awareness of patient radiation exposure

 

January 25, 2008

Private insurers announce new coverage for cardiac CTA

 

January 11, 2008

Philips Urges CMS to Withdraw Proposal to Reduce Cardiac CTA Coverage

 

December 28, 2007

CMS Delays “Anti-Markup” Proposal

 

December 19, 2007

Congress Passes Medicare Bill That Avoids New Imaging Cuts. But the battle over cuts will resume in early 2008.

 

December 17, 2007

CMS Proposes Coverage Cutback for Cardiac CTA

 

November, 2007

Studies Say Accuracy of CT Colonography Equivalent to Optical Colonoscopy.