Radiology reimbursement.
In this era of cost containment, radiologists must become more involved with correct coding to improve their service both to their patients and to their practices. The ability to code the same procedure in more than one way, as well as the large number of possible procedure codes to employ, mandates the physician's responsibility to use correct coding for reimbursement. Over-reimbursement is fraudulent, and under-reimbursement penalizes patients, hospitals, and private practices.
D000043:Abstracting and Indexing / Q000592:standards*; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000145:classification* / Q000191:economics; D008499:Medical Records / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011871:Radiology / Q000191:economics*; D012051:Reimbursement Mechanisms; D014481:United States