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Ten Questions to Ask in Comparing MRI Physics Services

February 16, 2011 | Priors

The looming deadline of January 1, 2012, is prompting many MRI scan providers to apply for accreditation. According to section 135 of the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act, as of this date, any provider of advanced imaging services billing under Medicare Part B must be accredited to receive payment. Choosing... Read More »

MIPPA Accreditation Countdown: ACR, IAC, or Joint Commission?

September 03, 2010 | Feature

In 2008, when Congress passed the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act (MIPPA), the January 2012 accreditation deadline for providers of advanced imaging seemed distant, but it’s near enough to call for action now. For those advanced diagnostic imaging services (ADIS) providers still unaccredited, the choices available in accrediting... Read More »

ACR Unveils Breast MRI Accreditation Program

May 17, 2010 | A Better Mousetrap

To enable imaging facilities to improve and maintain the quality of their breast MRI services, the ACR® has launched the Breast Magnetic Resonance Imaging Accreditation Program (BMRAP). Like other ACR accreditation programs, BMRAP involves peer-review assessment of imaging centers’ processes... Read More »

MIPPA Accreditation: 20 Months to Go

April 16, 2010 | Reimbursment

As the deadline inches closer, radiology providers around the country are scrambling to meet new CMS accreditation requirements for MRI, CT, and nuclear medicine. By mandate of the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act (MIPPA), in order to receive Medicare reimbursement for these modalities, imaging centers must be... Read More »

Deadline 2012: MRI Accreditation

March 16, 2010 | Quality

Under the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act (MIPPA) of 2008, those sites providing the technical component of advanced imaging must have accreditation by 2012—but not all imaging centers are waiting for the deadline. A case in point is that of the Frye Care Outpatient Imaging Center, which is... Read More »

All Eyes on Accreditation

December 21, 2009 | Quality

In July 2008, Congress passed the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act (MIPPA), which, among other provisions, mandated that all outpatient providers of advanced diagnostic imaging services be accredited by a CMS-designated body by January 1, 2012, in order to receive Medicare reimbursement for the technical component of an exam. Advanced... Read More »

Accreditation and Radiology

June 15, 2009 | Quality

Accreditation is important to radiology providers not only in ensuring reimbursement eligibility and protecting turf, but in creating the opportunity to make needed operational changes, according to David M. Yousem, MD, MBA. Yousem, who is professor of radiology and director of neuroradiology at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland,... Read More »

ACR Unveils a Modular MRI Accreditation Process

October 16, 2008 | Radiology Business Journal

The ACR is set to launch a new modular MRI accreditation program designed to meet the specific practice patterns of individual facilities. Sometime this month, the current general MRI accreditation program will transition to the new program—which includes brain, spine, musculoskeletal, body, MR angiography, and cardiac modules—opening... Read More »

UnitedHealthcare Accreditation Mandate: Why They Did It

October 15, 2007 | Utilization Metrics

Last January, UnitedHealthcare, Edina, Minn, became the first insurer in America to require nationwide accreditation for all outpatient-imaging providers, effective March 2008. The mandate applies equally to all outpatient providers of MRI, CT, PET, nuclear medicine, nuclear cardiology, and echocardiography. Providers have a choice of being accredited by the American... Read More »

MRI Accreditation Checklist: Prepare for Success

August 15, 2007 | Legislative Report

United Healthcare’s decision to require MRI accreditation after March 1, 2008, initiated a trend among payers that is likely to gain steam. It has also sent hospitals and freestanding imaging centers scrambling to secure MRI accreditation from the American College of Radiology, which has accredited over to 5,000 MRI units since... Read More »

ACR to Imaging Centers: Do Not Dither on UnitedHealth Accreditation

March 15, 2007 | Legislative Report

In announcing that all network imaging centers must be accredited by March of next year, UnitedHealthcare, Minnetonka, Minn, has added accelerated the trend toward imaging center accreditation and technical privileging requirements, The United accreditation program applies to all participating freestanding imaging centers and physician offices and is based on... Read More »