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.
Cleveland is yet again blazing new ground in healthcare. This time, myriad health systems are actively collaborating to share images. A first for the U.S., we believe. University Hospitals Health System (UH) is leading the charge that now includes more than two dozen hospitals, providers sites and health systems and counting. Here’s how they did it.
When a low- or moderate-risk breast lesion is diagnosed as pure papilloma following ultrasound core biopsy, what’s the next step in managing that patient’s care?
Project Pink, an initiative headed by North Carolina-based Charlotte Radiology and the Levine Cancer Institute, will provide free mammograms starting Monday, Oct. 8, to uninsured and underinsured women in North Carolina.
Researchers at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) in Spain have developed a hybrid nanoplatform that simultaneously uses three different imaging modalities—MRI, CT and fluorescence optical imaging (OI)—to detect solid cancers. Their findings were published in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces.
A higher consumption of processed meat—foods such as bacon, sausage and salami—is associated with a higher risk of breast cancer, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis of research published in the International Journal of Cancer.
Radiologists are inconsistent with their usage of the American College of Radiology’s Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) category 3, according to new research published in Academic Radiology.
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.