"If you’re not teaching, you’re not mentoring, then you’re putting us in the position of training the last generation of radiologists," Frank Lexa, MD, MBA, told attendees.
Three physicians, each with differing perspectives on the regulation, spoke during the session, titled: “21st Century Cures Act Information Blocking Provision: Friend or Foe?”
The American College of Radiology and 120 other healthcare organizations recently sent a letter to leaders of the House and Senate, asking them to fix the “flawed” Medicare payment system.
A nurse punctured the 68-year-old patient's lung with a feeding tube in 2018, and radiologist Louis Jacobs, MD, subsequently failed to spot the injury on X-ray.