Good morning!
At our main hospital contract, cardiologists are just beginning to read Cardiac MRI in 2019. The hospital has requested, and we obviously feel it is appropriate, to provide overreads on these studies for images captured outside the heart. Question for those with a similar scenario is whether you have requested a fee from your hospital to perform these overreads, and if so, what was your methodology to come to a fair rate? It seems excessive to charge the equivalent of the CPT level fee to the hospital. Would like to know how others have addressed this if it has come up. We want to make sure we are compliant from a stark perspective, etc.
Thank you,
Josh
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Joshua Dorsey
Chief Executive Officer
Radiology Associates of Northern Kentucky
Crestview Hills KY
614-284-1597
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