Members of the Democratic and GOP Doctors Caucuses are proposing the Patients First Act, bolstering incentives to save independent practices and “reversing decades of consolidation.” 

Radiologists who utilize artificial intelligence support may be vulnerable to automation bias, which can deteriorate their performance over time. 

This can be achieved without sacrificing image quality and could offer providers the same diagnostic accuracy as full-length scans that take between 15 and 45 minutes. 

"These cuts ignore the burden that rising practice costs are placing on ... radiology practices and our healthcare system," one imaging society told Radiology Business. 

Marit Health compiled the rankings based on 5,000 job listings, separating its lists based on practice settings including academia, hospital systems, medical groups and remote reading. 

SIR and several other prominent medical societies are advocating for an overhaul of what they see as outdated radiation protection practices. 

There has been progress over the years, researchers noted, but there is still a lot of work to do. 

Cardiologists received a nice bump in pay in 2026 thanks to a one-time 2.5% conversion factor increase. That expires at the end of the year, however, and physicians will see their payments decrease as a result.

Leaders of academic hospitals and deans of their affiliated medical schools often rely heavily on each other, and theirs is not a relationship of convenience.