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It’s extremely easy for a radiology group to lose control of its billing operations. There are a few management and personnel circumstances which can prompt this to happen… The primary administrative person is overwhelmed, incompetent, uninformed on proper billing controls, or simply too trusting of those in charge of billing—any of these shortfalls can lead to a total loss of control. The group of radiologists are hands off, completely uninvolved ...Read More

You’ve read your study and dictated your report. What’s next? Your report goes to a medical coder who reads the report and assigns the appropriate CPT®, ICD-10-CM, and HCPCS Level II codes so you can get paid. It sounds straightforward, doesn’t it? It’s not. In the coding process, there are many ways to get from your completed dictation to being paid for the work. Let’s discuss a few.   All ...Read More

In 2007, PACS vendor Amicas acquired certain ownership rights to source code from radiology billing giant ImagineSoftware (Technology Partners Inc.) of Charlotte, NC. In 2010, Amicas was bought by Merge. In 2015, Merge was bought by IBM for $1 billion. Fast-forward to April 21, 2017. ImagineSoftware announced it entered into a strategic agreement with IBM to take over Merge Financials (the software it sold to Amicas in 2007) as well ...Read More