Question: Why does a radiologist conduct the reading services instead of the referring physician?
Answer: A radiologist is a medical physician who is specially trained in radiology reading. In particular, radiologists are board certified by the American Board of Radiology and will confer accurate medical information to the referring physician.
Question: Why is it important to receive medical interpretations directly from radiologists?
Answer: Radiologists are board-certified medical physicians with expertise in acquiring and interpreting medical images. There are also a number of subspecialties for radiologists which ensures that the radiology reading will be specific to the imaging modality and anatomical structure being examined.
Question: How do radiology reading services facilitate proper diagnosis and treatment?
Answer: A radiologist correlates the findings of medical images with the results of additional tests and examinations, and also confers with the referring physician regarding the findings of the diagnostic report. This process facilitates proper diagnosis, treatment should it be deemed necessary, and coding of the services rendered.
Question: What credential does CodeArc’s teleradiologists hold?
Answer: We have ABR certified radiologists, FRCR Radiologists, Indian certified (MD/DNB/DMRD/DMRE) radiologists and US board certified radiologists per client’s needs.
Question: What modalities do you support?
Answer: We offer expertise in multiple subspecialties including neuro-radiology, musculoskeletal, body, emergency radiology, pediatrics, PET/CT & oncologic imaging, cardiac CT angiography, MRI, Mammography, Nuclear Scans, Ultrasonography, X-Rays, Oral and maxillofacial.
Question: What is the turn around time for reporting?
Answer: Typical for STAT or Emergency reporting the Turnaround Time (TAT) is less than 30-45 minutes. For Elective cases this is subject to the agreed turnaround time with the clients.
Question: How do we transmit the studies for interpretation?
Answer: If you have an existing PACS system you can route the DICOM image directly to our systems. Alternatively we can provide you our Teleradiology software for sending your images for reporting.
Question: How secure is your system?
Answer: We are a HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) company and our processes, systems and infrastructures are completely committed towards confidentiality and data security.
