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Senate bill calls for 65% equipment utilization rate
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The healthcare reform bill released this week by the U.S. Senate Finance Committee would set the equipment utilization rate for Medicare reimbursement of imaging studies at 65%, significantly lower than the 90% level proposed in original versions of the legislation.
September 15, 2009
UN's IAEA launches pediatric rad therapy network
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has launched the first global initiative by a United Nations organization to improve pediatric radiation oncology treatment in low- and middle-income countries.
September 13, 2009
AMIC report attacks utilization rate changes
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Access to Medical Imaging Coalition (AMIC) has issued a new analysis that criticizes proposals to change the utilization factor that determines Medicare reimbursement for advanced imaging procedures.
September 10, 2009
National Health IT Week scheduled September 21-25
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Organizers of the fourth annual National Health IT Week are encouraging healthcare providers to go to Washington, DC, to lobby members of Congress and to participate in weeklong events scheduled September 21-25 in the nation's capital.
September 8, 2009
AMIC: Voters oppose imaging cuts
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Access to Medical Imaging Coalition (AMIC) is touting survey results that indicate that 71% of voters oppose making additional cuts in Medicare reimbursement for advanced imaging procedures such as MRI and CT.
September 8, 2009
SNM: Nuclear medicine tests being postponed
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The global shortage of molybdenum-99 is significantly affecting nuclear medicine physicians and nuclear pharmacies, with many imaging tests being postponed, according to survey results released this week by SNM.
September 8, 2009
ACR to create LI-RADS lexicon
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American College of Radiology (ACR) has convened a LI-RADS (Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System) committee to develop a system for standardized reporting and data collection for CT and MRI surveillance for hepatocellular carcinoma.
September 3, 2009
SPR survey addresses pediatric rad shortage
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Many radiology residents may not fully understand the opportunities available in pediatric imaging -- perhaps accounting for the discipline's current shortage of radiologists, according to a new survey conducted by the Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR) of Reston, VA.
August 30, 2009
WVU wins NIH grant for PEM/PET system
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a four-year, $2 million grant to researchers at West Virginia University (WVU) in Morgantown for a hybrid positron emission mammography (PEM)/PET system.
August 27, 2009
Image Gently campaign expands to interventional radiology
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging is expanding the scope of its Image Gently campaign to include interventional radiology. The organization launched a global campaign this week to increase awareness of the need to keep radiation dose as low as possible when performing interventional radiology procedures on children.
August 23, 2009
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Study connects burnout, health in rad science educators
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Although radiologic science educators experience less job burnout than practicing radiologic technologists, there is a significant correlation between health status and burnout levels among the educators, concluded a study published in the July/August 2009 issue of Radiologic Technology.
August 20, 2009
Survey: Radiation therapy equipment use far less than 90%
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Utilization rates for radiation therapy equipment in freestanding cancer treatment centers are closer to the current assumed rate of 50%, not 90% as stated by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in the Medicare physician fee schedule proposed rule for 2010, according to the American Society for Radiation Oncology.
August 16, 2009
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