New AHRA Members & Featured Member
By AHRA Staff
September 2009 — Featured AHRA Member: Tonya Bell Brightmon, MS, RT(R) (CT), Diagnostic Imaging Manager, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX.
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Annual Meeting Poster Contest Results
By AHRA Staff
September 2009 — The results of AHRA’s first ever poster contest, which took place at AHRA’s 37th Annual Meeting and Exposition in Las Vegas, NV, were announced on Thursday, August 13. The theme of the poster competition was “Performance Improvement.”
Looking for Issues of the 2009 Convention Daily?
By AHRA Staff
September 2009 — In case you missed them, check out issues of Convention Daily from the 2009 AHRA Annual Meeting and Exposition in Las Vegas, NV.
The End of a Journey
By Penny Olivi, CRA, FAHRA
August 2009 — I cannot believe I am writing my last Link article. It has been a wonderful year, the best year of my professional life. There are no words that can express how you feel at the end of this most amazing journey.
The October 1st Stark Law Changes: Implications for Diagnostic Imaging Arrangements
By Adrienne Dresevic, Esq. and Carey F. Kalmowitz, Esq.
August 2009 — Last year, on August 19, 2008, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published final Stark rules in its 2009 Final Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems Rule (the “Final Rule”). The Final Rule contains 3 significant modifications to the Stark regulations which become effective this year on October 1, 2009. This article addresses these modifications and their implications for common diagnostic imaging arrangements.
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