Outlined in July as part of the 2027 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System proposed rule, Medicare is seeking to reduce spending on radiology services using site-neutral reforms. 

“These findings highlight opportunities for more targeted infrastructure planning and policy strategies to improve imaging equity in rural communities," experts charge. 

House lawmakers are proposing the Ensuring Timely Access to Coverage Decisions Act in a bid to bolster transparency and stakeholder involvement. 

Beginning on Oct. 22, the agency will instead be delivering these credentials through a new online system called the MQSA Facility Portal. 

Multiple computed tomography models manufactured by Philips are the subject of a new recall by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. 

Released by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in July, the administration is seeking to replace the agency’s longstanding “as low as reasonably achievable” standard. 

CMS is moving to new MIPS Value Pathways, or MVPs, which are specialty-specific measures intended to replace traditional ones, experts write in JACR. 

“Variation in valuation adjustment rates and amounts may reflect factors such as specialty society influence, valuation methods and negotiation strategies,” experts write in JAMA Network Open. 

Neiman Health Policy Institute researchers make their case in a new analysis published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. 

Outlined in the 2027 proposed physician fee schedule, Medicare wants to pay 50% of full price in certain scenarios where patients visit an office and receive a second service on the same day.