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. 

9 ways to lift clinician completion of radiologist recommendations

A multidisciplinary panel convened by the ACR has developed a set of quality measures aimed at boosting rates of appropriate follow-up care for patients with noncritical but actionable incidental findings.

MRI contact-sport study shows ‘no concussion’ doesn’t mean ‘no brain changes’

Football players whose heads are repeatedly struck but suffer no concussions have white-matter abnormalities similar to those sustained by their concussed peers. 

PACS hack lawsuit tossed

A federal judge has dismissed a class-action lawsuit filed by patients over a data breach at a four-location radiology practice and its countrywide parent company.

AHA presses GE for a detailed progress report on CT contrast shortage

The American Hospital Association is asking GE Healthcare to more fully apprise AHA’s nearly 5,000 member organizations of what the company is doing to help ameliorate the ongoing disruption in supplies of Omnipaque (iohexol).

New imaging biomarkers emerge for Alzheimer’s and its impairments

Brain MRI of the choroid plexus, the main supplier of cerebrospinal fluid, can deliver independent biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease without an assist from clinical tests for amyloid abnormality or neurodegeneration. 

Interview with Elizabeth K. Arleo, MD, and Radiology Business Editor Dave Pearson on American College of Radiology, ACR, new family medical leave resolution.

VIDEO: Dr. Arleo on why ACR has gone all in with paid family/medical leave

Radiology practice leaders who begrudge requests for parental and medical leave—if any such leaders are still extant in 2022—received a bracing wakeup call in late April.

Frontline perspectives on the CT contrast shortage: 5 notable quotes

U.S. healthcare is now a solid week into the CT contrast shortage of ’22, and common themes are emerging in adaptations at local hospitals and imaging centers.

Lung Association’s ‘Turquoise Takeover’ spotlights screening

The exterior illuminations are only one part of the ALA’s annual “Turquoise Takeover” initiative. Also look for turquoise accents across social media, including in the apparel choices of enthusiasts posting selfies.

Around the web

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.

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.

The all-in-one Omni Legend PET/CT scanner is now being manufactured in a new production facility in Waukesha, Wisconsin.