Practice management involves overseeing all business aspects of a medical practice including financials, human resources, information technology, compliance, marketing and operations.
Layne Tarbox, MD, and his attorney filed the complaint Oct. 28, alleging a husband-wife pair of rads engaged in fraud at one of the Pacific Northwest's largest medical groups.
Leaders from 31 different radiology societies recently met to discuss the specialty's biggest problems, offering solutions in a newly published analysis.
Prompt diagnosis of such pneumothorax is crucial, with delays linked to longer hospital lengths of stay and greater disease progression, experts write in Academic Radiology.
Greg Murphy, MD, R-N.C., and colleagues are proposing the Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act, which would halt a 2.8% reduction to the conversion factor.
PET myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) can help providers identify diabetic patients at an increased risk of heart attack or coronary artery disease, according to new research published in Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging.
High levels of background parenchymal enhancement (BPE) on breast MRI scans are associated with a greater chance of breast cancer in high-risk women, according to a new meta-analysis published in Radiology.
The American College of Radiology (ACR) has announced a significant expansion of its ACR AI-LAB pilot program aimed at helping imaging providers develop and use AI algorithms.
A new combination therapy using 177Lu PSMA-617 and idronoxil (NOX66) is effective for treating patients with prostate cancer, according to research presented at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) 2019 Annual Meeting in Anaheim, California.
Patients in the United States are depending on the emergency department (ED) for care more and more, a trend that has had a significant impact on imaging utilization.
The impact factor of the American College of Radiology’s academic journal, the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR), increased to 3.785 in 2018, according to the 2019 Journal Citation Report.
Contrast-enhanced CT (CECT) can help providers identify high-grade prostate cancers, according to new research published in the American Journal of Roentgenology.
Recent reports from mainstream media outlets have highlighted a possible side effect of our growing dependence on smartphones: imaging results show that the human skeleton may be growing tiny “horn”-like bone spurs.
Prior to the final proposal’s release, the American College of Radiology reached out to CMS to offer its recommendations on payment rates for five out of the six the new codes.