Practice Management: Page 636

Lung group disputes CT screening study
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The nonprofit organization Lung Cancer Alliance has criticized a U.S. government study that claimed CT scans yield twice as many false positives as chest x-rays and lead to a high percentage of invasive follow-up procedures.
April 28, 2010
GAO takes on self-referral study
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has agreed to study the effects of physician self-referral of advanced medical imaging and radiation therapy treatments on Medicare spending, according to a GAO spokesperson.
April 28, 2010
ASTRO issues report on SBRT for lung cancer
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has released a report prepared by its emerging technology committee evaluating the use of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for treating patients with lung cancer.
April 28, 2010
Conn. breast density law causes conundrum for mammo sites
By Kate Madden Yee
A new Connecticut law that mandates that women undergoing mammography be informed of their breast tissue density rating could spark increased use of ultrasound for breast cancer screening. But are radiologists ready for the additional workload if similar legislation spreads across the U.S.?
April 28, 2010
ASRT releases CT career prep package
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) has created an online learning program to help would-be CT technologists prepare for a career in the modality.
April 27, 2010
RadNet buys NY and NJ facilities
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Imaging services provider RadNet has acquired three multimodality facilities from the bankruptcy proceedings of Sonix Medical Resources.
April 27, 2010
ARRT: Fewer RTs taking exams
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
For the first time in eight years, the number of people taking radiologic technologist (RT) certification examinations in nuclear medicine, radiography, and radiation therapy declined in 2009.
April 26, 2010
Medicare cancer imaging grows at twice rate of overall expenses
By Wayne Forrest
Medicare spending on medical imaging for cancer patients grew at twice the rate of overall cancer spending in the U.S. program from 1999 to 2006, with PET expenses growing at the fastest rate, according to a new study in the April 28 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
April 26, 2010
MedCAC bombarded with info about prostate radiotherapy
By Cynthia E. Keen
An advisory committee to the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) tried to get a handle on the thorny issue of radiation therapy for prostate cancer last week. But the panel encountered a thicket of literature that despite its volume failed to offer much guidance as to whether CMS should increase Medicare reimbursement.
April 25, 2010
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Accuray nets CyberKnife reimbursement
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiotherapy firm Accuray has received word that French and Italian health authorities have approved reimbursement for CyberKnife treatments.
April 25, 2010
MRI hippocampal measurement doesn't predict cognitive decline
By Rosemary Frei
Using MRI to measure hippocampal volume is not a good method for predicting subsequent cognitive decline in older adults from the general community, according to a study presented at the recent American Academy of Neurology meeting in Toronto.
April 25, 2010
ACR seeks GAO self-referral review
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American College of Radiology (ACR) has asked three members of the U.S. House of Representatives to have the Government Accountability Office (GAO) study the effects of physician self-referral of advanced medical imaging and radiation therapy treatments on Medicare spending.
April 22, 2010
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