• Hurricane Dorian Advisory 3
  September 4, 2019
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Hurricane Dorian Advisory 3

September 4, 2019


CMS Imaging, Inc. continues to monitor Hurricane Dorian and is executing our Storm Contingency Plan in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. Hurricane Dorian is now a Category 2 storm with winds exceeding 110 mph and is currently traveling northwest along the northeastern coast of Florida. The storm is expected to stay out to sea but will bring tropical-storm-force or hurricane-force winds to Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina.

To ensure the safety of our team members and their families, CMS Imaging's Jacksonville Office is closed, and our Charleston Office and Call Center will close today at 12:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time. We will transfer all of our calls to our secondary off-site call center starting at noon. In the event, our secondary location is also affected; we have planned a third off-site call center location to continue to answer and respond to service calls. All call centers can be reached at our regular phone number, 800.867.1821, or via email at service@cmsimaging.com.

Based on the forecast from the National Weather Service, we expect to reopen our Jacksonville Office on Thursday and our Charleston Office and Call Center on Friday.
For those who require service after the storm, we will begin to dispatch our service engineers to areas affected by the storm once the federal, state, and local authorities have deemed it safe to return and travel in the areas affected by Hurricane Dorian.
Please contact us at info@cmsimaging.com with any questions regarding CMS Imaging's Storm Contingency Plan.
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• Hurricane Dorian Advisory 2
  September 3, 2019
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Hurricane Dorian Advisory 2

September 3, 2019


CMS Imaging, Inc. continues to monitor Hurricane Dorian and has begun executing our Storm Contingency Plan in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. Hurricane Dorian is now a Category 3 storm with winds exceeding 120 mph and is currently stationary off the coast of the Bahamas before it's expected travel up the East Coast. The storm is expected to stay out to sea but will bring tropical-storm-force or hurricane-force winds to Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina.

To ensure the safety of our team members and their families, CMS Imaging's Charleston Office and Call Center will close today at 12:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time. We will transfer all of our calls to our secondary off-site call center starting at noon. In the event, our secondary location is also affected; we have planned a third off-site call center location to continue to answer and respond to service calls. All call centers can be reached at our regular phone number, 800.867.1821, or via email at service@cmsimaging.com.

For those who require service after the storm, we will begin to dispatch our service engineers to areas affected by the storm once the federal, state, and local authorities have deemed it safe to return and travel in the areas affected by Hurricane Dorian.

The CMS Imaging, Inc. Executive team will meet again tomorrow, and another Storm Alert will be issued.

Please contact us at info@cmsimaging.com with any questions regarding CMS Imaging's Storm Contingency Plan.
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• Hurricane Dorian Advisory 1
  September 2, 2019
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Hurricane Dorian Advisory 1

Monday, September 2, 2019
CMS Imaging, Inc. is monitoring Hurricane Dorian and will execute our Storm Contingency Plan in Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas if necessary. Hurricane Dorian is now a Category 5 storm with winds exceeding 180 mph moving at less than 5 MPH up the east coast of Florida. There is a level of uncertainty if the hurricane will make landfall, and if so, where it will come ashore.

Keeping our team members and their families safe during this storm is our primary concern. The governors of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina have issued State of Emergency orders. Additionally, the governors of Georgia and South Carolina issuing Mandatory Evacuations along their respective coasts.

CMS Imaging is watching the situation very closely and will if necessary, close our Charleston and Jacksonville offices if the storm presents a danger to our employees. Our Storm Contingency Plan is in effect, and we stand prepared to continue our high level of service to our clients. Because of the Labor Day holiday, our Charleston Call Center is closed today, Monday, September 2, 2019. In the event, the storm takes a dangerous turn and threatens Charleston; we will close our call center and switch to a secondary location. In the event, our secondary location is also affected; we have planned a third off-site call center location to continue to answer and respond to service calls. All call centers can be reached at our regular phone number, 800.867.1821, or via email at service@cmsimaging.com.

For those who require service after the storm, we will begin to dispatch our service engineers to areas affected by the storm once the federal, state, and local authorities have deemed it safe to return and travel in the areas affected by Hurricane Dorian.

We urge all those in the expected path of Hurricane Dorian to monitor the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) at https://www.noaa.com.

For additional information on how to prepare for hurricanes, visit the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) website at https://www.Ready.gov/hurricanes.

The CMS Imaging, Inc. Executive team will meet again tomorrow, and another Storm Alert will be issued.

Please contact us at info@cmsimaging.com with any questions regarding CMS Imaging's Storm Contingency Plan.
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• Docs Brace for Medicare 'Appropriate' Imaging Rule
  July 22, 2019
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Docs Brace for Medicare 'Appropriate' Imaging Rule
An article by Nicole Lou, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today
As the medical community braces for implementation of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA) by the Jan. 1, 2020 deadline, some wonder if it's even feasible or if another program delay is on the horizon.

The policy, aimed at reducing unnecessary testing, mandates that all advanced diagnostic imaging orders go through an algorithm that provides key confirmation codes required when Medicare is billed later on for the service.

Dubbed a "clinical decision support mechanism" (CDSM), this software processes each CT, MRI, nuclear medicine, and PET order before spitting out its verdict to the ordering professional: "appropriate," "maybe appropriate," or "rarely appropriate," according to a certain set of appropriate use criteria (AUC).

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