COVER STORY After 75 Years, the ARRT Has a Rich History and a Bright Future By Scott Hatfield ADVANCE Marketing Technology Editor The American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) has changed its logo as part of the organization’s 75th anniversary. Technologists who have attended…
Details on Mammography Continuing Education Weekends By Margaret Botsco, RT(R)(M) Special to ADVANCE Like all registered radiologic technologists, mammographers have a continuing education requirement to fulfill. Mammographers must also meet requirements delinated by the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA). In the following, one of…
Rare Lung Disease Symptoms Mimic Asthma By Margaret Varnell, RN, RRT Lymphangiolieomyomatosis (LAM), a rare lung disease affecting women of childbearing years, may in many cases be undiagnosed or misdiagnosed as asthma, delaying what care is available. There are 250 known cases of LAM…
Outsourcing Transcription: Outsourcing Transcription: How to Make a Successful Transition …and Not Lose Your Mind and/or Your Job in the Process By Catherine Baxter, CMT Special to ADVANCE Re-engineering, cost-justi-fying, cost-containing, streamlining and other similar words have entered our working vocabularies in recent years,…
Cases Provide Good Example of Emergency Dept. Coding CODING Corner Cases Provide Good Example of Emergency Dept. Coding Kim Charland, BA, CCS, ART ADVANCE Columnist Case One: Fractured Phalanx and Subungual HematomaHistory: This is a 10-year-old male who had a 1,500-pound weight of wooden…
Mainstreaming Children With Autism By Barbara J. Lecomte, PhD Autism is a complex educational, communicative and social condition that affects one in four or five children out of 1,000 (Rutter, 1978). Although most children diagnosed with infantile autism initially appear to be developing typically,…
Top 10 Most Commonly Asked Questions Regarding APGs Top 10 Most Commonly Asked Questions Regarding APGs By Julia Dean, RRA Special to ADVANCE Since 1990, outpatient payment reform has steadily moved toward an outpatient prospective payment system (PPS) using ambulatory patient groups (APGs). Questions…
The Good, the Bad and the in Between… The Good, the Bad and the in Between… Managing a Diverse Staff During Times of Change By Anne Miller ADVANCE Assistant Editor With the health care industry undergoing an unprecedented period of change, just working in…
Enhancing VRA Testing in Young Children By Marc Iskowitz The challenges of testing children between the ages of 6 months and 2 1/2 years make visual reinforcement audiometry (VRA) a necessary component of pediatric assessment. By adopting certain improvements to their VRA technique, such…
Quiz Offers Coding Practice CCS Prep! Quiz Offers Coding Practice Deborah Day-Oliver RRA, CCS, CPC ADVANCE Columnist As we approach the end of the CCS Prep! segments, and as the certified coding specialist (CCS) and CCS physician based (CCS-P) exams draw closer, we decided…