Medicare reimbursement: what R.T.s should know.

Amid continued attention toward cutting the cost of Medicare, medical imaging continues to be an area that legislators focus on for reducing expenditures, which ultimately affects the amount of money available in health care facilities to provide services and pay personnel. These issues support the need for medical imaging and radiation therapy professionals to understand how the Medicare program works, the provisions health care facilities must meet to obtain payment for services provided to Medicare beneficiaries, and how recent changes in Medicare reimbursement rates affect a medical imaging or radiation therapy department's bottom line.