ACR believes a proposal to add restrictions around research funding could have "a chilling effect on academic research and innovation in the United States.” 

Currently, students who have completed an accredited radiologic technology program are given three chances to pass the certification examination within their eligibility period. 

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.” 

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

ASTRO convened the conversation with the House Cancer Caucus on July 14, voicing mounting concerns over coding changes that took effect Jan. 1. 

Members of the Childhood Cancer Caucus are proposing the Accelerating Innovation for Kids Act, aimed at fast-tracking the deployment of this tech in pediatrics. 

Between 2018 and 2025, practice sites disproportionately disappeared from rural areas, along with freestanding and community-based settings, ASTRO reports. 

Kimberly Beavers, MD, a clinical assistant professor and remote breast radiologist with NYU Langone Health, will serve as inaugural chair of the initiative. 

The agency said it hopes to control “unnecessary” increases in the volume of clinic visit services furnished at certain off-campus hospital departments.

The state is one step closer to enacting legislation that would require imaging and radiation therapy professionals to acquire state licensure to operate radiation-producing equipment.