Healthcare IT News February 16, 2018
RadNet and vRad have deployed natural language processing tools to help them tackle over-utilization and help perform tasks that are challenging for humans.
Positive or negative Medicare payment adjustments in 2019 will depend on performance to quality and other measures in 2017 under a new program called the Merit-based Incentive Payment System. Doing well on quality measures is important because they comprise 60 percent of a provider’s total MIPS score – possibly 85 percent for certain specialties such as radiology.
Most of the quality measures in MIPS are based on face-to-face patient encounters and are not particularly applicable to radiology. That’s a concern for RadNet, a 300-center outpatient imaging provider.
“We had to take full advantage of the few quality...
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