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CMS Radiology Nuclear Medicine

• Presented By-
• Ms. Laura A. Dixon (BS, JD,
  RN, CPHRM)

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• Laura A. Dixon served as the director, facility
  patient safety and risk management, and
  operations for COPIC from 2014 to 2020. In her
  role, Ms. Dixon provided patient safety and risk
  management consulting and training to facilities,
  practitioners, and staff in multiple states. Such
  services included the creation of and
  presentations on risk management topics,
  assessment of healthcare facilities.
• Ms. Dixon has more than twenty years of clinical
  experience in acute care facilities, including
  critical care, coronary care, peri-operative
  services, and pain management. Prior to joining
  COPIC, she served as the director, western
  region, patient safety and risk management for
  the doctors company, Napa, California.

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• This program will cover the entire CMS radiology
  and nuclear medicine standards that hospitals
  must adhere to. Every hospital that accepts
  Medicare or Medicaid must comply with these
  regulations and interpretive guidelines.
• So these CMS Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
  standards address the issue that ionizing
  radiation can cause cancer and that radiology
  services are not without risk. Patient exposure
  to radiation has doubled in twenty years.
• This program will cover the MRI requirements.
  Some many policies and protocols are now
  required. This program will help hospitals
  understand all the radiology and nuclear medicine
  conditions of participation to help prevent
  receiving a deficiency.

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• Objectives-
• Recall that CMS rewrote has radiology and nuclear
  medicine provisions in the hospital CoP manual
• Discuss that there are several policies and
  procedures required for radiology by CMS
• Recall that an order is needed for any radiology
  or nuclear medicine test

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• Agenda-
• How to locate a copy of the current CMS CoP
  manual
• The risk of ionizing radiation
• Increased patient exposure and the risk of cancer
• Teleradiology

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• Who Should Attend this Session-
• Radiology department director
• Radiology medical director
• Radiology staff
• Patient safety officer
• Compliance officer
• Chief operating officer
• Chief medical officer (CMO)
• Emergency department physicians
• Clinic physicians
• Physicist
• Chief nursing officer

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CMS Radiology Nuclear Medicine
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