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.
The FDA has approved a magnetic device system used for guiding sentinel lymph node biopsies in breast cancer patients undergoing a mastectomy. The solution, Sentimag, is manufactured by U.K.-based Endomag.
Cancer screening rates in the United States over the last 15 years fall short of national targets, according to new research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
A blood test administered within 12 hours of a suspected traumatic brain injury (TBI) could help clinicians identify injuries like hemorrhage and contusion before having to resort to CT imaging, according to the preliminary results of a study published this week in the Lancet Neurology.
Recent advances in cone beam technology mean neurointerventionalists are able to diagnose a patient with large vessel occlusion without a CT scan or trip to the emergency department—possibly reducing time to care by as much as an hour.
The WVU Cancer Institute is looking to provide low-dose CT lung cancer screenings for 42 West Virginia counties at no cost with a mobile imaging bus, WV News reported this week.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH)’s Clinical Center released a large-scale database of 32,000 annotated CT images last week in an effort to improve the detection accuracy of lesions, the NIH announced in a statement.
Lightly embalmed cadavers can help medical students and radiology residents simulate common ultrasound-guided interventional radiology (IR) procedures, according to a new study published in Academic Radiology.
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.