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CMS begins EHR online registration
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) this week began online registration for its electronic health record (EHR) incentive program.
January 3, 2011
Large study shows exams using radiation are common in children
By Eric Barnes
Children undergo many imaging procedures involving radiation, concludes a new study from the University of Michigan and other U.S. centers. The three-year study covering more than 350,000 children with health insurance showed that the subjects received, on average, three scans involving radiation over the study period.
January 3, 2011
Nonrads now cost Medicare more for imaging; study tracks kids' imaging exposure
By Brian Casey
January 3, 2011
CMS issues MPFS conversion update
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has made another adjustment to the 2011 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS), the agency said.
January 3, 2011
Nonradiologists now eat up more of Medicare's imaging pie
By Kate Madden Yee
Medicare payments for diagnostic imaging to nonradiologist physicians -- especially cardiologists -- have surpassed payments to radiologists, according to a new study published in the January issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
January 3, 2011
Radisphere adds to client list
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiology services provider Radisphere National Radiology Group has signed Twin Lakes Regional Medical Center of Leitchfield, KY, as a new customer.
January 2, 2011
Faculty dispute at University of Iowa goes public
By Brian Casey
A dispute between radiology faculty at the University of Iowa has gone public, with a professor charging in local newspapers that the department's chair called him an "academic terrorist" and retaliated against him for filing a discrimination complaint with the university.
January 2, 2011
Rate of imaging utilization in emergency room escalates
By Kate Madden Yee
In research that confirms previous studies, a group from Thomas Jefferson University says that the rate of imaging use in U.S. emergency departments (EDs) has exploded, particularly in CT, with the modality's share of ED imaging doubling between 2000 and 2008 -- due in part to physicians practicing defensive medicine.
January 2, 2011
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AuntMinnie.com Imaging Leaders Insider
By Kate Madden Yee
December 29, 2010
NY Times finds more treatment mistakes in radiation therapy
By Cynthia E. Keen
The New York Times this week once again took aim at radiation oncology. In a December 28 article, investigative reporter Walt Bogdanich detailed a series of treatment errors that occurred when linear accelerators were outfitted with cone attachments to enable them to perform stereotactic radiosurgery.
December 29, 2010
Oncology firm fights McKesson over US Oncology purchase
By Cynthia E. Keen
In a matter of days, a David versus Goliath battle will be fought in a New York City courtroom, as a small oncology services firm seeks to halt McKesson's $2.16 billion acquisition of US Oncology.
December 29, 2010
IBt Bebig buys German software firm
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation therapy developer IBt Bebig has acquired SonoTech, a Neu-Ulm, Germany-based developer of brachytherapy treatment planning software.
December 27, 2010
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