California radiology center renews with Zotec

Coast Radiology Imaging & Intervention of Mission Viejo, Calif., has renewed its billing services contract with Zotec Partners for three years.

Coast Radiology is a provider of imaging services for Mission Regional Hospital and Mission Imaging Center, for various areas of diagnostic imaging, nuclear medicine and interventional radiology.

The imaging firm utilizes Zotec’s Electronic Billing Center (EBC) practice management and billing software suite, as well as its Decision Support tool to drill down into their information, including analyzing payors to see who is referring business to them and looking at practice trends, such as inpatient, outpatient and ER volumes.

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