Ben White

MAY 9, 2023

If the shortage gets worse, then turnaround times will continue to lengthen (and patients suffer) and hospitals will struggle to get coverage (and patients suffer). That will be the time when the government/Medicare/national organizations start advocating against the currently protected role that radiologists hold for imaging interpretation.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 27, 2024

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) contracted with the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) to develop a quality measure focused on CT. Administered CT radiation doses are highly variable across patients, radiologists, and hospitals throughout the U.S. In 2019, the U.S. 2 Rebecca Smith-Bindman, MD.

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Imaging Technology

AUGUST 9, 2024

"Radiation doses from computed tomography (CT) scans on patients are highly variable across patients and hospitals throughout the United States and other nations.1 Alara is proud to collaborate with Bayer to support health systems across the U.S. 1 Smith-Bindman R, Wang Y, Chu P, et al.

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Intelerad

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

According to a recent article from Radiology Business, nearly 3,500 physician practices that provide radiology services disappeared from the Medicare Provider Data Log between 2015 and 2022. Of the associated physicians from these disappearing practices, 46% of them moved to a large multispecialty group.

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Aidoc

JUNE 25, 2024

One study found that Medicare patients alone “see a median of seven providers (two primary care providers and five specialists)” across four practices each year. As her diagnostics continue, each test and procedure generates its own set of results and reports. Sarah’s situation is by no means unique.

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Aidoc

APRIL 20, 2023

Seemingly overnight, entire hospital systems crumbled under the load and had to pivot to a crisis stance which persisted for the next 1-2 years. The same year, Medicare awarded its first New Technology Add-on Payment (NTAP) designation for an AI product designed for stroke detection. But, it’s a start.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 2, 2024

tesla MRI AI body composition analysis Cardiac PET Cryo/thermoablation CT colonography Genicular artery embolization Hyperpolarized xenon-129 MRI PET/MRI Photon-counting CT Radiomics Theranostics Whole-body MRI screening Image of the Year 3D PET/MR image.

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