N.C. rad practice selects Imagine billing software

Charlotte Radiology of Charlotte, N.C., has selected an IMAGINEradiology practice management system from Technology Partners, dba Imagine Software, for its billing and collection needs.

The practice has deployed IMAGINEradiology, which features Smart Imaging Technology, an auto-coder feature, applice processing, and EOB reader, direct-to-payor submission, and electronic remittance.

Charlotte Radiology employs more than 70 radiologists with specialty training from mammography to musculoskeletal and pediatrics to interventional radiology, and serves more than 10 hospitals in the Carolinas, as well as owning and operating 12 breast centers, and jointly owning and reading for Carolinas Imaging Services.

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