CBR participates in ANVISA meeting to review Ordinance 453/98

The Brazilian College of Radiology and Imaging Diagnosis, represented by the Director of Professional Defense, Dr. Cibele Alves de Carvalho, was on this Wednesday (19) at the public meeting to present and clarify the proposed regulation of the General Management of Technology in Health Services (GGTES) for diagnostic or interventional radiology services. O … Continue lendo

CBR warns associates about “escalation”

The Brazilian College of Radiology and Image Diagnosis (CBR), once again, comes to alert the radiological class about the suppression, since the 8th edition of CBHPM, published in 2014, of the rules that suggested financial discount on multiple exams performed in the same patient, the so-called escalation. The “escalation” occurred in the same service as the … Continue lendo

Medicine and the use of WhatsApp

After numerous consultations on the subject, the CFM, in consultation process No. 50/16 - Opinion CFM No. 14/2017, consolidated the understanding in the sense that it is possible to use the application (platform) Whatsapp and similar in communication between doctors and their patients and among professionals. The Federal Council of Medicine, however, presented in the aforementioned decision … Continue lendo

CBR participates in the CBHPM Technical Chamber meeting at the Brazilian Medical Association (AMB)

The CBR, represented by the Director of Professional Defense, Dr. Cibele Carvalho, and by the College's Economic Advisor, Mr. Carlos Moura, participated this Wednesday, May 2, in the CBHPM Technical Chamber meeting at the Brazilian Medical Association (AMB), in which the Ultrasonic Hepatic Elastography procedure was included in the CBHPM, after approval in the “List of … Continue lendo

Health operators governed by the ANS are required to adopt the TUSS

A very pertinent topic, which the Brazilian College of Radiology and Image Diagnosis receives several consultations, deals with the obligation of health operators to adopt the code and nomenclature of the Unified Terminology of Supplementary Health (TUSS). Some operators have adopted descriptions of procedures that deviate from the TUSS standard, negatively impacting … Continue lendo