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By Kate Madden Yee
March 18, 2018
Pittsburgh radiologist charged in opioid case
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A radiologist in Pittsburgh has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that he unlawfully dispensed Vicodin and then filed for insurance reimbursement of the prescriptions.
March 18, 2018
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How important is the MIPS cost category to radiology?
By Richard Morris
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services threw a surprise into the Quality Payment Program final rule for 2018 when it included the cost category as 10% of the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) final score for 2018 reporting. In this new article, Richard Morris of Healthcare Administrative Partners helps you prepare for the change.
March 18, 2018
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New data from Match 2018 underscore radiology's rebound
By Brian Casey
Radiology has completed its rebound as a specialty that's desirable to medical students, if data from the 2018 Main Residency Match are any indication. U.S. diagnostic radiology programs reported in as 100% filled, with no programs posting any unfilled first-year radiology residency positions.
March 16, 2018
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Japan adopts new gadolinium use restrictions
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Japan has adopted new restrictions on the use of linear gadolinium-based contrast agents (GBCAs), according to an editorial written by Dr. Tomonori Kanda of Kobe University and published online on March 16 in Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences.
March 15, 2018
Broken record? MedPAC still frets about imaging use
By Kate Madden Yee
Is the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) starting to sound like a broken record? The group's latest report to Congress continues to sound the alarm that imaging is overused, despite the fact that growth in imaging utilization has actually declined since 2009.
March 15, 2018
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ASRT announces recipients of life member, fellow status
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) will grant life member or fellow status to several of its members at the upcoming ASRT Annual Governance and House of Delegates meeting in Las Vegas.
March 14, 2018
SBI names scientific award winners
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Society of Breast Imaging (SBI) has named Dr. Emily Ambinder and Dr. Eugene Kim as the scientific award winners for the 2018 SBI/American College of Radiology Breast Imaging Symposium next month in Las Vegas.
March 14, 2018
Surgeons at Texas hospital use AR in sinus surgery
By Erik L. Ridley
An augmented reality (AR) technology was used to perform minimally invasive sinus surgery at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston by sinus surgeons affiliated with Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center.
March 13, 2018
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ASRT backs ASTRO safety, quality initiative
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) has provided financial support to a national patient safety initiative sponsored by the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) and the American Association of Physicists in Medicine.
March 13, 2018
JAMA report on U.S. healthcare spending calls out imaging
By Kate Madden Yee
Why are U.S. healthcare costs so much higher than those in comparable developed countries while clinical outcomes are worse? When a study published online March 13 in the Journal of the American Medical Association sought to answer that question, heavy utilization of imaging technology in the U.S. landed squarely in its crosshairs.
March 13, 2018
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Report on U.S. medical costs calls out imaging | 10.5T MRI scanner fires up | PET beats SPECT for CAD
By Brian Casey
March 12, 2018
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