State passes BAC notification legislation | Imaging leaders rail against ACP breast cancer screening recs | RP suit dismissed

Two respected radiology organizations have issued a stark warning on the new recommendations, stating that they risk confusing patients and “may contribute to thousands of additional breast cancer deaths each year.”

HB 1364, a bill some radiologists pushed back against, is headed to the Governor’s desk to be finalized. It is set to take effect on Oct. 1. 

"This case reflects a troubling pattern in which payers, dissatisfied with IDR results, increasingly try to attack those outcomes outside the framework Congress created," Rad Partners says. 

NCCN suggests that 5-year future breast cancer risk assessments based on routine mammograms should be integrated into standard practices. 

The figure places the specialty third among medicine’s highest earners, behind only orthopedics ($611,000) and cardiology ($575,000), Medscape reports. 

Of all lawsuits filed against patients in 2024 in one U.S. state, physician practices and other non-hospital healthcare entities accounted for 80% of cases. That’s a complete inversion from just six years prior.  

In the three or so years since it burst into healthcare, ambient AI scribe technology has run away with the win in the market-uptake race. What has been the return on investment in all those software packages? 

The idea was floated as part of a proposed budget for the state released by Democrats in the Senate. If passed, only the top 2% of corporations in California would be impacted. The levy would generate $5 billion to $8 billion annually for Medicaid.