Practice Management: Page 429

SIR taps 29 research fellows
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) has added 29 fellows to its roster.
March 27, 2014
RLI summit to focus on radiology leadership
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American College of Radiology's Radiology Leadership Institute (RLI) summit in August will focus on leadership in the healthcare environment.
March 27, 2014
House passes 12-month SGR patch
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Just weeks after bipartisan legislation to permanently repeal the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula stalled in Congress, the U.S. House of Representatives has passed by voice vote HR 4302, the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014, which prevents a 24% cut to Medicare physician reimbursement rates that would go into effect on April 1.
March 26, 2014
Calif. Senate bill would strike down in-office exception
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A bill introduced in February in the California Senate was amended on March 26 to eliminate the in-office exception for advanced imaging and radiation oncology from the state's self-referral regulations.
March 26, 2014
Nuclear medicine residents see 'dismal' job market
By Wayne Forrest
The job market is not what one would call robust for would-be nuclear medicine residents, and their limitations in reading hybrid images is just one reason why, according to a new survey published in the March issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
March 26, 2014
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House introduces yet another SGR patch
By Kate Madden Yee
With bipartisan efforts stalled for a permanent repeal of the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula, two committees in the U.S. House of Representatives have introduced yet another patch that would avert cuts to Medicare reimbursement mandated by the SGR.
March 25, 2014
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PET being used to evaluate Menkes therapies
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Japanese researchers are using PET to visualize copper distribution in mice to potentially identify therapies for a genetic disorder known as Menkes disease.
March 25, 2014
25% of breast cancer survivors report financial hardship
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Four years after being treated for breast cancer, a quarter of survivors say they are worse off financially, at least in part because of their treatment, according to a new study published online March 24 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
March 25, 2014
ASRT adds to board of directors
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) has voted in three officers to its board of directors.
March 25, 2014
ECR 2014 attendance stays level at 20K
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Attendance at ECR 2014 was largely at the same level as the 2013 congress, just above 20,000 total attendees, but there was significant growth in registration for live streaming video, according to official figures released by the European Society of Radiology.
March 24, 2014
JAMA: Nuclear MPI use in Kaiser system falls dramatically
By Wayne Forrest
The use of nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) dropped by half from 2006 to 2011 within a Kaiser Permanente healthcare system in California, but researchers can't quite point to specific reasons for the decline, according to a study published in the March 26 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
March 24, 2014
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Redberg editorial calls for tighter device approvals
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Dr. Rita Redberg has co-authored a new editorial charging that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration should require new clinical trials for changes made to high-risk devices that have already been approved.
March 24, 2014
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