Medicaid – Restricted – A referral from your primary care physician to SIRA Imaging or to SIRA Inc. is needed, depending where services are rendered if SIRA is not listed on web site/swipe ticket for patient. A referral to the specialist ordering the x-ray does not cover SIRA.
Medicaid managed care plans require precertification for certain radiology services, MRIs, CTs, PETs, etc. They do NOT give retroactive precertification.
X-Rays
Nuclear Medicine
Most insurance companies require you to obtain authorization, known as precertification, for CTs, MRIs, PET, and some nuclear medicine procedures. Please check your insurance card to see if you are required to obtain precertification before you have your exam.