'See no evil' butts up against learning curve

September 5, 2008 Diagnostic Imaging. 'See no evil' butts up against learning curve Trying to hide errors makes it impossible to ever learn from and avoid repeating the BY ERIC TREFELNER, M.D. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi, Roger. How are things at Memorial Hospital? What are you in line for?" "Things are fine at the hospital. I'm here getting a second mortgage for a ski lodge we're buying. And you?" "I'm getting a third mortgage to pay Medicare." "Medicare?" "They did an audit of 100 radiology reports at our hospital, and they felt that 33% were either incorrect compared with pathology reports or had minor errors. Now they want to be reimbursed for 33% of all cases we read. This is just like when they would audit our practice over screening versus diagnostic mammograms."

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