Reimbursement update: looking toward the 1990s.
Some Medicare carriers have independently decided to treat all billings for echocardiographic services as radiologic, whereas others have decided to treat billings from multispecialty practices that include a radiologist as radiologic services. The result is that the radiology fee schedules are being applied, even though the services were not supplied by radiologists.
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Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710.
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