It’s 5 a.m.: Do you know where your brain is?

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At the start of the 8 a.m. session today, Randy Roat, vice-president of MMP in Flint, Mich., read my mind. “I know that for those of you from the west coast it’s 5 a.m…” he began. But together with Michael Gonzales, the central billing office manager at Radiological Associates in Sacramento, Calif., they provided a unique and very lively session on billing benchmarking and investigating the decision to outsource. Complete coverage of this session will appear in the July edition of ImagingBiz.com. To read the current edition, or to subscribe, click here: http://www.imagingbiz.com.

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How Not to Wind Up Like MIDI and West Valley

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This morning I popped in on a session focused on Medicare fraud and abuse. Stuart Langbein, JD, offered “tales from the front line” – and as a lawyer dealing with Medicare fraud issues, he had plenty of material to discuss. “There’s been a lot of attention paid in the past decade to health care fraud and abuse, and I think we’re only going to see that continue,” he said. “Congress is going to pump more money into fraud and abuse efforts with health care reform.”

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