Practice Management: Page 293

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

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

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

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

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

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

Are you ready for Medicare's value modifier adjustment for 2018?

By Sandy Coffta

The results are in from a survey of U.S. healthcare practices and their degree of readiness for the Medicare Value-Based Payment Modifier. The change could result in reimbursement penalties for practices that aren't ready. Where do you stand? Sandy Coffta of Healthcare Administrative Partners explains.

March 12, 2018

ASTRO releases new breast radiation therapy guideline

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has issued a new clinical guideline for whole-breast radiation therapy in breast cancer.

March 12, 2018

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