Diagnostic Imaging Nuclear Medicine Ultrasound 
AuntMinnie
OCTOBER 25, 2024
An assistant professor of radiology and radiological science, Francis Deng, MD, is the Johns Hopkins radiology department's co-director of medical student diagnostic radiology electives. His area of expertise is neuroradiology, with a special emphasis on diagnostic imaging of the head, neck, brain, and spine. Elliot Fishman, MD.
AuntMinnie
DECEMBER 20, 2024
This was a case of the radiology practice miscoding an ultrasound exam conducted on the pregnant patient at 41 weeks that showed low amniotic fluid -- which resulted in the scan being sent "to nowhere," rather than to the mother's midwife. The baby died. Ferreira had reportedly retired three months prior to the trip.
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AuntMinnie
OCTOBER 21, 2024
A new PET/CT radiotracer that detects insulinomas could eliminate the need for other diagnostic procedures in a vast majority of patients, according to a study published October 17 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. Endoscopic ultrasound is highly sensitive, but invasive, they added. DEED, Attribution 4.0
AuntMinnie
MARCH 29, 2024
The investigators sought to assess imaging spending among the ESI population via a study that consisted of information from the 2010 to 2021 Merative MarketScan Commercial Database that included 33.9 million individuals; they used the Neiman Imaging Types of Services (NITOS), version 4.0 Nuclear medicine 2.7%
AuntMinnie
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Higher Medicaid-to-Medicare reimbursement ratios (MMRR) are linked to increased likelihood of Medicaid patients receiving CT, MR, ultrasound, and x-ray imaging, researchers have reported. but "no study has examined the relationship between Medicaid reimbursement and utilization of imaging," the team wrote. Nuclear medicine 0.76
AuntMinnie
JANUARY 22, 2024
In addition, they computed the out-of-network rate by imaging modality, with claims categorized as CT, MR, nuclear medicine (NM), ultrasound, radiography or fluoroscopy (XR), and interventional procedures. million imaging claims for 19.5 For example, among diagnostic imaging, NM had the largest decline, from 14.5%
AuntMinnie
JULY 9, 2024
X-ray and ultrasound machines were badly damaged in a rocket attack on Ukraine's largest children's hospital on July 8, according to radiologist Stanislav Rebenkov, MD. It will take months to recover, he said. This is a very big crime," he told AuntMinnnie.com in a phone interview on July 9. There are broken windows everywhere. local time.
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