IRs look for silver lining as government pushes quality

June 3, 2008 Diagnostic Imaging. IRs look for silver lining as government pushes quality Specialty fights falling reimbursement while persuing practice improvements via reporting and drug and device initiatives H. A. Abella -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Interventional radiologists, like their diagnostic counterparts, remain under pressure as payers ratchet back reimbursements. But they continue to fight on the reimbursement front and see some silver linings in new government programs designed to improve the quality of care. Interventional radiology practitioners and researchers, as well as IR-related technology developers, could use to their advantage federal plans such as the Physician Quality Reporting and Critical Path initiatives. Such plans may help them to streamline workflow, protect reimbursement, and bring about better drugs and devices more quickly and cheaply, according to members of a panel presentation at the recent Society of Interventional Radiology meeting.

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