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Bayer, Alara Imaging to Collaborate

Imaging Technology

2 To ensure proper patient safety, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has established a standardized method to monitor the performance of diagnostic CTs to discourage unnecessarily high radiation doses with the creation of new radiology patient safety electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs).

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How Technology Can Simplify Radiology Mergers and Acquisitions 

Intelerad

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.