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Road to RSNA 2024: Women's Imaging Preview

AuntMinnie

Women’s imaging at this year’s RSNA reflects momentous changes in trends regarding personalized, targeted healthcare in 2024 for women’s health. Research efforts toward supplemental breast imaging have ramped up in recent years and in Chicago, attendees can see results from these imaging modalities being put to the test.

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Few ‘surprise’ patient bills are from radiologists, study finds

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Out-of-network billing by radiologists – often referred to as “surprise billing” – dropped significantly beginning in 2007 and imaging claims are now almost completely in network, according to a recent study. In an analysis of billing trends, the rate of out-of-network (OON) imaging claims declined from 12.6% in 2007 to 1.1%

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Road to RSNA 2023: Ultrasound

AuntMinnie

Ultrasound's utility will be on full display at this year's RSNA annual meeting, showing its merit in a wide variety of clinical applications. Research to be presented at the annual meeting in Chicago will explore the modality's clinical applications in musculoskeletal, pediatric, abdominal, and women's imaging among other areas.

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HPI: Nonradiologists interpret more than a third of office-based imaging

AuntMinnie

A significant percentage of imaging studies ordered by office-based healthcare providers are self-interpreted rather than referred to radiologists for reading, according to researchers from the Harvey L. million office-based imaging claims for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries in 2022 that were ordered by nonradiologists.

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Radiologists can take steps toward environmental sustainability

AuntMinnie

The researchers also suggested that decision-support tools can be implemented to choose lower-energy imaging tests when appropriate. Carbon dioxide emissions vary by imaging modality and are higher for MRI and CT compared with ultrasound and x-rays. The full article can be found here.

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UltraCon: How reliable is POCUS for pancreatic imaging?

AuntMinnie

AUSTIN, TX – Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) isn’t typically used for imaging the pancreas, but perhaps that should change, according to a presentation given April 7 at UltraCon. Alice Lee, MD, from Stanford University presents research on the feasibility and performance of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) at UltraCon.

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Standardized reporting categorizes breast cancer detection methods

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A standardized detection reporting system can help radiologists accurately categorize how breast cancer is identified -- either through screening or symptomatic presentation -- when performing image-guided breast biopsies, researchers have found. These included the following: symptomatic presentations, imaging modalities, and other.