by iproinc | Jul 23, 2019 | iOrder, Referrals
How do you get patients in your facility? Usually, they come from referring physicians. Referrals equal revenue. More referrals equal revenue growth. The question thus emerges, how can you increase patient referrals? Having worked with many imaging facilities over the...
by iproinc | Jul 15, 2019 | iOrder, qCDSM
There has been some confusion about the looming deadlines for complying with new Federal regulations concerning the use of Qualified Clinical Decision Support Mechanisms (qCDSMs). Mandatary use of qCDSMs will be the law as of January 1, 2020, about six months from...
by iproinc | Jul 9, 2019 | iOrder
A 75-year-old woman presents in your medical practice with acute hip pain. She’s had a fall recently and worries that she may have a fracture. Until pretty recently, you could have ordered a CT scan or MRI for this patient and gotten reimbursement from Medicare...
by iproinc | Jul 1, 2019 | Imaging Center, iOrder
Want to reduce your imaging center’s overhead? The question takes me back to the early 1980s, when the father of a dear childhood friend practiced medicine. We used to spend hours making paperclip chains and driving his secretary crazy in the early 1980s. I remember...
by iproinc | Jun 28, 2019 | iOrder, Order Transparency
A doctor writes an order for a service like an MRI. She hands it to the patient, who stuffs it into his pocket and walks out of the doctor’s office. What happens next? The answer, if you’re honest, is anyone’s guess. Will the patient get the MRI? The doctor won’t know...
by iproinc | Jun 25, 2019 | iOrder, qCDSM
We’ve noted some confusion in the radiology field about the deadlines for compliance with new Federal regulations concerning the use of Qualified Clinical Decision Support Mechanisms (qCDSMs). We wanted to take a moment to clarify the deadline issues and delve a...
