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Medicare Officials Urge Advanced Imaging Providers Toward Accreditation

Published on Sun May 09, 2010

Plus: CMS won't say for sure whether your claims will actually face rejection if you aren't in PECOS by July 6. If your office is providing MRIs or other advanced imaging services, you should start now in your attempt to get accredited, said CMS's Sandra Bastinelli, MS, RN, during a May 25 CMS Open Door Forum. "If you have any advanced imaging in your office, and that would be MRI, CAT scanners, PETs, or doing any nuclear medicine," and you're actually performing the imaging and are billing the technical components of those advanced diagnostic imaging services, you have to be accredited by Jan. 1, 2012, Bastinelli said. Although it may sound far away, she reminded practices that they only have a year and a half to prepare. "CMS has already designated three accrediting organizations that you can go to," Bastinelli advised. One is the American College of Radiology, the second [...]
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