Billing I-AIM: a novel framework for ultrasound billing

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Background: Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has an ever-growing footprint in medicine. With this growth POCUS billing and reimbursement has become an area gaining quite a bit of attention as a means of funding and sustaining quality and education programs. Standardization across providers is needed to improve the financial viability of POCUS. Results: We created an institutional collaborative which developed a framework to identify critical POCUS billing and reimbursement checkpoints. The framework, Billing I-AIM, provides a feasible structure to enhance provider-based reimbursement and perform quality improvement efforts across variable POCUS environments. Conclusions: POCUS billing using the Billing I-AIM technique allows administrative oversight, quality assurance, and educational functions as well. A discussion of the framework and respective application is provided.

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Hughes, D., Corrado, M. M., Mynatt, I., Prats, M., Royall, N. A., Boulger, C., & Bahner, D. P. (2020). Billing I-AIM: a novel framework for ultrasound billing. Ultrasound Journal, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13089-020-0157-0

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