Policy & Regulations

This channel includes news coverage of healthcare policy and regulations set by Congress, the states, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and medical associations and societies. 

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Senators introduce radiologist-backed bill to punish payers for ignoring No Surprises Act rulings

Sens. Roger Marshall, MD, and Michael Bennet have unveiled the NSA Enforcement Act after representatives proposed a similar House bill in September. 

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Congress reconsiders controversial changes to radiologist assistant payments

Sens. John Boozman and Ben Ray Luján on Thursday reintroduced the Medicare Access to Radiology Care Act (MARCA). 

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Mobile mammography units are not cannibalizing facility-based breast cancer screening

Such roving imaging vans have been posed as a way to reach more women in rural and underserved communities. But do they unintentionally hurt facility-based efforts? 

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Radiology Partners study unearths 3 common barriers to lung cancer screening

RP affiliate Desert Radiology surveyed 300 screening-eligible patients during their visits, sharing the findings in the journal of Cancer Epidemiology. 

RBMA Board member Kit Crancer outlines the key legislation in radiology to watch.

Pending radiology bills in Congress and predicting the Trump administration's impact on imaging

Kit Crancer, RBMA board member, speaks with Radiology Business about key legislative developments on the Hill that will affect the specialty. 

RSNA Board member Richard Heller, MD, explains issues with Medicare reinburements and the No Surprises Act and Congressional actions that may fix both.

Key Medicare reimbursement and No Surprises Act updates from RSNA 2024

Richard Heller III, MD, RSNA board member and senior VP of policy at Radiology Partners, offers an overview of policies in Congress that are directly impacting imaging.
 

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Radiologists sound alarm with state bill to more than double cap on malpractice damages

Radiology advocates have rallied against the measure, worried it could “threaten the stability” of the state’s healthcare system, ACR reported. 

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Operations manager, doctors charged in $70M imaging kickback scheme

The scam took place over a period of seven years, resulting in Medicare being billed for more than $70 million in fraudulent claims for unnecessary scans. 

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Nearly $800,000 settlement offered to family of man who died during MRI exam

The patient, who was being cared for in the ICU, was not accompanied or monitored by nursing staff during his exam, despite being sedated.

Cardiovascular Business
Global shortage of nuclear imaging isotopes may be over

The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

Cardiovascular Business
‘A huge win’: CMS significantly increases Medicare payments for cardiac CT

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.