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CT fails to explain racial variation in child abuse mortality
By Cynthia E. Keen
African-American children with traumatic brain injuries resulting from abuse or nonaccidental trauma are three times more likely to die in hospital emergency departments than Caucasian children, a new study from pediatric radiologists in Ohio indicates.
April 8, 2010
TechniScan nets bridge financing
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Breast ultrasound imaging developer TechniScan has closed on the first $1.85 million of a proposed $2.5 million in bridge financing.
April 5, 2010
CMS offers reprieve to SGR rate cuts
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Once again, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is giving healthcare providers a temporary reprieve from a 21% reimbursement cut due to go into effect on April 1.
March 30, 2010
Medicare SGR cut to go into effect April 1
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Despite passing sweeping healthcare overhaul, Congress has adjourned for spring recess leaving one particular item on the table: a 21% cut in Medicare reimbursement effective April 1, according to the American Medical Association.
March 28, 2010
Allocade nabs $5M in financing
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Healthcare software developer Allocade has landed $5 million in venture capital financing.
March 25, 2010
Closer follow-up reduces postmammography diagnosis delays
By Kate Madden Yee
For low-income women with abnormal mammograms, using a case management approach for follow-up is an effective tool that can deliver a more timely diagnostic resolution, according to a study published online March 16 in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
March 21, 2010
Radiology societies comment on HIT stimulus
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Believing that the proposed implementation of the U.S. healthcare IT (HIT) stimulus plan fails to take into account the needs of radiology, four major radiology organizations have joined forces to request changes by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
March 16, 2010
House bill would bar use of USPSTF guidelines to deny coverage
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A New Jersey representative has introduced legislation to the U.S. House of Representatives that would ensure preventive services, such as mammograms, could not be denied coverage for service by a group health plan or health insurance issuer as a result of federal guidelines.
March 10, 2010
Senate extends SGR deadline until October
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
In a 62-36 vote on March 10, the U.S. Senate passed a bill that, if approved by the House of Representatives, will delay until October 1 a planned 21% cut in Medicare reimbursement.
March 10, 2010
iCRco donates CR unit to Honduras
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Computed radiography (CR) firm iCRco has donated a CR system to the nonprofit organization Shoulder to Shoulder for use in a remote clinic in rural Honduras.
March 8, 2010
CMS OKs F-18 NaF imaging coverage
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has approved coverage of F-18 sodium fluoride (F-18 NaF) PET and PET/CT imaging to identify bone metastasis of cancer under certain conditions.
March 7, 2010
ACR to Obama: Medicare should cover CTC
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services should cover CT colonography (CTC) for Medicare patients, the American College of Radiology (ACR) wrote in a March 2 letter to President Barack Obama.
March 4, 2010
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