Cardiologists are the highest paid professionals in medicine, averaging $170 per hour for an annual average salary of $353,970, according to a new Forbes report.

There are plenty of radiologists serving Medicare patients in the U.S., but the headcounts are unevenly distributed, and widely so.   

JACR asked three experts on radiologist compensation for a written answer to a pressing question: In creating the ideal practice-level P4P program in 2022, what elements must be considered, avoided and emphasized?

A state attorney general has indicted the physician owner of an imaging center for bribing colleagues to order unnecessary exams before performing the exams—including some with IV contrast—and submitting false claims to CMS.

Payers have been using rates agreed to by PCPs to justify underpaying specialists such as anesthesiologists, emergency physicians and, yes, radiologists.

Radiography OEM Carestream Health Inc. has filed for voluntary Chapter 11 reorganization with a federal bankruptcy court in Delaware.

Eight imaging associations concerned about radiology’s fiscal fate at the hands of CMS’s proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for 2023 are imploring Congress to intervene.

When emergency radiologists overread interpretations of critically ill transfer patients, they discover discrepancies in fewer than 15% of cases. However, more than 90% of these second opinions produce a change in patient care or follow-up.

Why does CMS allow radiologists to provide imaging supervision at an unlimited number of sites?

Surveying the landscape of well-paying jobs in reach of individuals with two-year degrees, a popular technology-business news outlet has found three of the top 10 exist within the radiological sphere.