Fabricate Findings for a Payable Diagnosis?

February 6, 2012, 7:00 am by Radiology Headlines from Diagnostic Imaging

In our bizarre world of getting paid not for what we do but rather why we did it, we often find ourselves holding the bag when a referrer ordered a study that the insurer decided was “inappropriate.”

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