http://symtym.net/2005/12/delicious_051217/ meandering healthcare, law, technology... Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:18:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://symtym.net/2005/12/delicious_051217/comment-page-1/#comment-226 CardioNP Wed, 21 Dec 2005 13:03:00 +0000 http://symtym.com/?p=635#comment-226 Journal club was cancelled today - attending in the tropics vacationing. So I mentioned the above article re: nuclear imaging to the cardiology fellows. They did not realize that this was already law - one knew it was proposed. Got some interesting responses - from, "well forget about the nuclear certification", to "it only affects Medicare and Medi-cal patients". Glad I am not in private practice and will not need to worry about self referral infractions. (I order nuc studies, then am actually the one giving the persantine or supervising the ETT, but don't do the interpretation or bill for my services). Journal club was cancelled today – attending in the tropics vacationing. So I mentioned the above article re: nuclear imaging to the cardiology fellows. They did not realize that this was already law – one knew it was proposed. Got some interesting responses – from, “well forget about the nuclear certification”, to “it only affects Medicare and Medi-cal patients”.
Glad I am not in private practice and will not need to worry about self referral infractions. (I order nuc studies, then am actually the one giving the persantine or supervising the ETT, but don’t do the interpretation or bill for my services).

]]> http://symtym.net/2005/12/delicious_051217/comment-page-1/#comment-227 CardioNP Wed, 21 Dec 2005 10:03:00 +0000 http://symtym.com/?p=635#comment-227 Journal club was cancelled today - attending in the tropics vacationing. So I mentioned the above article re: nuclear imaging to the cardiology fellows. They did not realize that this was already law - one knew it was proposed. Got some interesting responses - from, "well forget about the nuclear certification", to "it only affects Medicare and Medi-cal patients".<br>Glad I am not in private practice and will not need to worry about self referral infractions. (I order nuc studies, then am actually the one giving the persantine or supervising the ETT, but don't do the interpretation or bill for my services). Journal club was cancelled today – attending in the tropics vacationing. So I mentioned the above article re: nuclear imaging to the cardiology fellows. They did not realize that this was already law – one knew it was proposed. Got some interesting responses – from, “well forget about the nuclear certification”, to “it only affects Medicare and Medi-cal patients”.
Glad I am not in private practice and will not need to worry about self referral infractions. (I order nuc studies, then am actually the one giving the persantine or supervising the ETT, but don't do the interpretation or bill for my services).

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