Certifying Your Self-Referral CT

If you want to legitimatize your self-referral operation, just create a society or a commission. The ICACTL, or the "Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Computed Tomography Laboratories" fills the bill. Their mission statement reads, "The ICACTL is dedicated to promoting quality computed tomography diagnostic testing in the delivery of health care by providing a peer review process of laboratory accreditation." So I guess if they bless an operation, it guarantees quality. Sure it does.

Who sponsors this thing anyway? I don't see any radiology societies in there:

American Academy of Neurology
American Academy of Otolaryngology
American Association of Physicists in Medicine
American College of Cardiology
American Society of Echocardiography
American Society of Nuclear Cardiology
Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions
Society for Vascular Surgery
Society for Cardiovascular Computed Tomography
Society of Nuclear Medicine

Acquiring this blessing is pretty cheap, only $2500 for a main site, and $1000 for each additional scanner per lab. I'm going to buy a used scanner and put it in my garage, and pay my $2500 so I can be accredited too!

Oh, guess what? There is also a sister operation, ICAMRL, the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Magnetic Resonance Laboratories. Why can't we just be honest and create the ICARMFPW, the Intersocietal Commission for the Authorization of Removal of Money From Patients' Wallets?