Practice Management: Page 214

Racial factors affect time to breast cancer treatment

By Kate Madden Yee

Black women with breast cancer experienced longer times to surgery than their white counterparts in a study among patients in the U.S. Military Health System published online January 23 in JAMA Surgery.

January 23, 2019

ASE releases clinical guidelines for TTE

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) has released new guidelines for performing comprehensive transthoracic echocardiographic (TTE) exams.

January 21, 2019

Men greatly outnumber women in academic nuclear medicine

By Wayne Forrest

The underrepresentation of women in academic diagnostic radiology has had a ripple effect in nuclear medicine, where men outnumber women by almost 6-to-1 in professorial and leadership positions in the U.S. and Canada, according to a study published in the January issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

January 20, 2019

Kwiatkowski asks for sentence to be thrown out

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

David Kwiatkowski, the radiologic technologist who is serving 39 years in prison after infecting patients with hepatitis C as part of a drug diversion scheme, is asking a federal court in New Hampshire to throw out his sentence.

January 16, 2019

How AI will become an integral part of standard care

By Elad Walach and Dr. Carl Aschkenasi

The current medical landscape for artificial intelligence (AI) allows for early adopters to embrace AI innovation with ease, yet it has left the majority of medical institutions struggling to catch up. Elad Walach and Dr. Carl Aschkenasi examine what needs to happen for AI to become an integral part of the standard of care.

January 16, 2019

UnitedHealthcare delays preauthorization policy

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Healthcare insurer UnitedHealthcare has delayed its planned "site of care" preauthorization review policy for certain hospital outpatient CT, MR, and MR angiography procedures until February 1, according to the American College of Radiology.

January 15, 2019

MRI jargon draws fire in Vox series on health costs

By Brian Casey

Online news portal Vox continues find radiology in its sights as it takes aim at runaway healthcare costs. In a January 14 article, the site criticized jargon that hospitals use to describe radiology services -- in particular MRI -- as an example of why healthcare charges are so hard to understand.

January 14, 2019

Less jargon makes MRI reports easier to read

By Wayne Forrest

It's time for radiologists to use more common words that patients can understand when they read their lumbar spine MRI and other exam results, concluded a study published online January 8 in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

January 14, 2019

Coding changes that will affect radiology practices in 2019

By Rebecca Farrington

What coding changes are in store for U.S. radiology practices in 2019? Rebecca Farrington of Healthcare Administrative Partners takes a look at revisions in the current procedural terminology (CPT) codes and what they mean for your coding.

January 14, 2019

Mont. hospital pays $10M to settle radiology lawsuit

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Bozeman Health Deaconess Hospital in Montana paid $10 million in November 2018 to settle a federal lawsuit that charged the hospital with fraud connected to its provision of radiology services, according to a report in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle.

January 13, 2019

Radiology Partners inks deal with Texas group

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Imaging services provider Radiology Partners has signed a partnership agreement with Austin Radiological Association.

January 13, 2019

Week in Review: Radiologists as gatekeepers | Doubts about radiopharma plan | CT expeditors

By Brian Casey

January 11, 2019

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