The resolution urges the AMA to advocate for separate payment for certain services using supplies priced above $500, as well as those containing high-cost equipment. 

Almost 2,000 children underwent musculoskeletal MRI over an eight-year stretch at the Hospital for Special Surgery, and not a single one of them needed sedation to get through the exam.

Physician, hospital and patient advocacy groups expressed concern about other provisions in the budget bill, including sizable cuts to the Medicaid program. 

These arrangements typically involve non-full-time employment, compensated on an hourly, shift or daily basis without benefits or annual salary, experts write in Pediatric Radiology. 

Sens. Roger Marshall, MD, R-Kan., and Mark Warner, D-Va., are reintroducing the Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act, which previously drew widespread support. 

The Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based physician group—acquired by Nanox for $30 million in 2021—logged revenue of roughly $2.6 million in Q1, up from $2.4 million last year. 

John Simon, MD, CEO of SimonMed Imaging, says imaging has considerably advanced for noninvasive detection of disease and it may be time for it to play a greater role in annual physicals, especially in executive physical exams.
 

It is widely agreed that women with dense breast tissue should undergo supplemental imaging in addition to their routine mammogram screening, but the jury is still out on which modality is best for cancer detection in this group. 

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