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Members- CMS asks providers to take action by May 7, 2026 to maintain access to your MAC Medicare Beneficiary Look Up Tool:
Make sure your MAC portal users are associated with NPIs in your organization on whose behalf they may perform MBI lookups. This helps us verify legitimate use and protects your access to the lookup tool. Learn More
Members FYI - Have you or do you intend to purchase ABI testing equipment??? Be aware of what you are purchasing and make sure it meets Medicare guidelines. CMS is now recouping Millions from providers due to Medical device companies that misrepresent the capabilities of their products and encourage providers to bill Medicare for services that do not meet coverage requirements. Read OIG case
Request for Information (RFI) Related to Comprehensive Regulations to Uncover Suspicious Healthcare (CRUSH). ​CMS is looking for ways to strengthen its fraud-fighting toolbox and invites public comments on how to achieve this. Learn More

April 21, 2026 Oz previews new push for states towards Revalidating all Medicaid Providers

April 17, 2026 CMS Launches first wave of Health Tech Ecosystem Tools

April 15, 2026 Feds Suspend 23 Home Health Organizations, 447 Hospice over $600M Medicare Fraud

April 8, 2026 Advances in DR - Dynamic digital Radiology (DDR) is central to the strategy

April 7, 2026 Rural Nursing home support limited, despite growing needs

April 2, 2026 Premier Radiology continues to grow with another Acquisition

April 1, 2026 Radiologists complain that Noridian is requiring them to provide medical records “they do not control,” and are unable to force referring physicians to furnish. 

March 31, 2026 Imaging Interpretation turnaround time more than doubled over the decade

March 24, 2026 CMS release final rule on Friday establishing new standards for the electronic transfer of claims documentation, including a new standard for electronic signatures to ensure that claims attachment transactions are secure, authenticated, and compliant with federal regulations. 

March 24, 2026 California owner of a Hospice company along with owners of Diagnostic testing companies face jail time for filing claims that were not ordered by a physician and were not performed. These businesses included a Shaklian-owned hospice company – the Pasadena-based Chateau d’Lumina Hospice and Palliative Care – and several diagnostic testing companies: Saint Gorge Radiology in Sylmar; Hope Diagnostics in North Hollywood; Direct Imaging & Diagnostics and Lab One – both based in Hollywood; and Labtech and Lifescan Diagnostics in Claremont.

March 23, 2026 CMS to phase out fax machines and snail mail 

March 10, 2026 Medicare Advantage is facing a reality check

March 2, 2026 CMS halts Elevance enrollment in Medicare Advantage

February 20, 2026 Mobile Imaging Pilot Program Preventing unnecessary ED Visits

February 19, 2026 See the instructions in your MAC (PDF) to learn about the April quarterly updates to the Medicare Physician's Fee schedule database, including new procedure codes, payment policy indicator changes, new edits for duplicate Radiology billing.

February 16, 2026-New HIPAA Rules go into affect - Read more

February 13, 2026 New York man sentenced in federal court in Boston for conspiring to offer and pay kickbacks to doctors in exchange for ordering medically unnecessary Carotid Dopplers with assistance from 2 managers of a Mobile Diagnostics Company, 

February 4, 2026 CMS increases focus on Nursing Home Medical Directors compliance-Will the focus also turn to ancillary provider's compliance with Supervisory physicians?

January 29, 2026 Premier Radiology aquires Teleradiology group NRad

January 27, 2026 Update your Notice of Privacy Practice-effective February 16, 2026

January 25, 2026 California man pleads guilty in $54M in Radiology and Hospice care fraud scheme

January 22, 2026 Medicare Advantage Payments exceed FFS by $76B

January 21, 2026 TridentCare Announces Acquisition of Dispatch Health

January 16, 2026 Medicare payment advisors urge Congress to increase Radiologist reimbursement

January 15, 2026  Five Ophthalmology Practices Agree to Pay Nearly $6M to Resolve Allegations of Fraudulent Claims to Medicare and Medicaid for Cranial Ultrasounds performed by a 3rd party testing company The practices paid the third-party testing company based on the volume or value of tests ordered and referred the patients to the testing company’s preferred radiology group for the ultrasounds’ professional component, according to the release.

January 15, 2026 Med PAC recommends to cut Skilled Nursing Home reimbursement by 4% and Home Health reimbursement by 7%

January 15, 2026 CMS changes onsite inspection contractors as of January 3, 2026

January 14, 2026 Google rolls out 2 new open access AI models aimed at Medical Imaging

January 8, 2026 OIG Focus on Nursing Home engagement of Medical Directors
OIG and Department of Justice (DOJ) have aggressively pursued nursing homes and related entities for sham medical director arrangements that violated the Anti-Kickback Statute and False Claim Act

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