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 | DIIR April 2010 (Full PDF Issue) |
| TOP OF THE NEWS
Devices industry tax included in Obama’s revised health reform proposal
TRENDS/REPORTS
CDC examines growth in use of medical technologies
REGULATORY
CMS conducting ‘dry run’ of imaging efficiency measures
ACR launches online accreditation programs for PET, nuclear medicine
CMS delays PECOS enrollment requirement
EYE ON IMAGING
The practice’s good will v. the physician’s right to practice
BUSINESS/FINANCIAL
Diagnostic imaging stocks fall 7 percent in last five weeks
MARKET SCANNER
Weighing benefits and risks of imaging
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| Radiologists and Noncompetition Agreements: How Binding Are They? |
| Many hospitals and physician practices require physicians to sign noncompetition agreements as part of their employment contract. The question often raised: How binding are these agreements?
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| Devices Industry Excise Tax Included in Obama’s Revised Health Reform Proposal |
| Revised health reform legislation released Feb. 22 by the White House includes a $20 billion excise tax on the medical device industry, a proposal that was vigorously opposed by the devices industry as part of the original House and Senate reform bills.
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| CDC Examines Growth in Use of Medical Technologies |
| A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) underscores the steep increase in diagnostic imaging usage in the United States in recent years, noting that from 1996 to 2007, there was a “more than three-fold increase in the number of visits per 100 population to physician offices and hospital outpatient departments during which MRI/CT/PET scans were ordered or provided.”
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| CMS Conducting ‘Dry Run’ of Imaging Efficiency Measures |
| The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is conducting a national “dry run” of reporting data for four outpatient imaging efficiency measures (OIE) included in the Hospital Outpatient Quality Data Reporting Program (HOP QDRP).
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| Eye 0n Imaging: The Practice’s Good Will v. the Physician’s Right to Practice: How Well Do Noncompetition Agreements Hold Up? |
| Many people have a favorite physician. Perhaps it is the physician who helped an ailing child with cancer, or the one who helped a family in a moment of crisis, or the physician who brought a child into the world.
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| CMS Delays PECOS Enrollment Requirement |
| The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced a further delay in the requirement that ordering or referring physicians be enrolled in Medicare’s Provider Enrollment Chain and Ownership System (PECOS).
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| ACR Launches Online Accreditation Programs for PET, Nuclear Medicine |
| The American College of Radiology has launched an online nuclear medicine and positron emission tomography (PET) accreditation application program that streamlines the process and significantly reduces the time it takes for nuclear medicine and PET facilities to become accredited.
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| Diagnostic Imaging Stocks Fall 7 Percent in Last Five Weeks |
| The 10 stocks in the G-2 Reports’ Diagnostic Imaging Index fell by an unweighted average of 7 percent in the five weeks ended Feb. 26, 2010, with six stocks rising, three falling, and one virtually unchanged.
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| Market Scanner (April 2010) |
| Physicians, patient advocates, and representatives of the medical imaging industry testified during a Feb. 26 congressional hearing on the benefits and risk of diagnostic imaging procedures, especially computed tomography (CT) scans.
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