The Bottom Line

Regular columnist Dr. Richard Duszak tackles aspects of financial management and the correct coding to bill for radiological examinations.

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2009

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Colonic and Cardiac Imaging: Two Steps Forward

November 2009 (Vol. 6 | No. 11 | Pages 744-745)

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Documentation Means Dollars: A Few Simple Tips for Better Reimbursement

September 2009 (Vol. 6 | No. 9 | Pages 613-614)

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613-614
Cardiac MRI: Will Coverage Ever Flow?

May 2009 (Vol. 6 | No. 5 | Pages 292-293)

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292-293
RAC or Racket? You Be the Judge

March 2009 (Vol. 6 | No. 3 | Pages 142-143)

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142-143
Do You Really Want That Package?

January 2009 (Vol. 6 | No. 1 | Pages 7-8)

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2008

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Building a Better Compliance Officer

November 2008 (Vol. 5 | No. 11 | Pages 1106-1108)

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1106-1108
Emerging Reimbursement for Emerging CT Technology

September 2008 (Vol. 5 | No. 9 | Pages 958-959)

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958-959
In Search of an Acceptable Coding Error Rate

July 2008 (Vol. 5 | No. 7 | Pages 793-795)

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793-795
Coding for CAD

May 2008 (Vol. 5 | No. 5 | Pages 619-620)

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619-620
Paying for Transcription: Not Very Professional

March 2008 (Vol. 5 | No. 3 | Pages 166-167)

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166-167
New Codes, Once Again

January 2008 (Vol. 5 | No. 1 | Pages 19-20)

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19-20
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2007

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Arthrography Coding: Not Disjointed at All

November 2007 (Vol. 4 | No. 11 | Pages 758-759)

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Teaching Physician Compliance

September 2007 (Vol. 4 | No. 9 | Pages 584-585)

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584-585
Virtual Whatever-ography: A Coding Conundrum

July 2007 (Vol. 4 | No. 7 | Pages 446-447)

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446-447
Cross-Sectional Angiography: Reconstructing the Correct Codes

May 2007 (Vol. 4 | No. 5 | Pages 270-271)

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270-271
Medically Unbelievable Edits: Unbelievable Indeed

March 2007 (Vol. 4 | No. 3 | Pages 187-188)

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187-188
New Year, New Codes…And All New Confusion

January 2007 (Vol. 4 | No. 1 | Pages 69-70)

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2006

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Qui Tam Means Trouble

November 2006 (Vol. 3 | No. 11 | Pages 885-887)

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885-887
Deauthorization: The Insidious New Payer Trick

September 2006 (Vol. 3 | No. 9 | Pages 713-715)

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713-715
Completely Limited Coding

July 2006 (Vol. 3 | No. 7 | Pages 550-553)

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550-553
The Ordering Physician Rules!

May 2006 (Vol. 3 | No. 5 | Pages 369-371)

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Deciphering the Reimbursement Lexicon

March 2006 (Vol. 3 | No. 3 | Pages 216-217)

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216-217
The New Reconstruction Codes: 3-D is Better Than No D

January 2006 (Vol. 3 | No. 1 | Pages 67-68)

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2005

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New CT Codes to Take to Heart

November 2005 (Vol. 2 | No. 11 | Pages 955-957)

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Another Unpaid Second Opinion

September 2005 (Vol. 2 | No. 9 | Pages 793-794)

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793-794
When Expert Coding Advice Isn’t

July 2005 (Vol. 2 | No. 7 | Pages 634-635)

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634-635
Diagnosis PleaseIf You Want To Get Paid!

May 2005 (Vol. 2 | No. 5 | Pages 447-448)

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447-448
Coding certification: Can you afford less?

March 2005 (Vol. 2 | No. 3 | Pages 282-283)

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282-283
New rules, new codes, and the fall from grace

January 2005 (Vol. 2 | No. 1 | Pages 79-80)

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79-80
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2004

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Dictating for dollars (and compliance, too)

November 2004 (Vol. 1 | No. 11 | Pages 874-875)

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874-875
Pelvic sonography: OB or not OB

September 2004 (Vol. 1 | No. 9 | Pages 689-690)

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689-690
CT colonography and virtual reimbursement

July 2004 (Vol. 1 | No. 7 | Pages 457-458)

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457-458
Compliance: Not all fun and games

May 2004 (Vol. 1 | No. 5 | Pages 311-312)

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311-312
Venous access: deciphering the new codes

March 2004 (Vol. 1 | No. 3 | Pages 166-168)

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166-168
Coding and billing: the long road from ABC to W-2

January 2004 (Vol. 1 | No. 1 | Page 66)

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