Demand for faster imaging interpretation has propelled an uptick in outsourcing, with half of radiologists reportedly reading scans offsite. 

The American College of Radiology is miffed that MIPS may retire 2 imaging quality measurements, with the specialty's options already limited. 

Device manufacturer Sirtex Medical paid the highest total to IR physicians at more than $5.1 million, Johns Hopkins researchers reported. 

The Indianapolis-based payer had placed guardrails around reimbursement for some hospital-based imaging, but relented after "thoughtful" discussions with radvocates.  

Some patients have little understanding about the role of the radiologist or how it differs from the technologist, but Belgian providers are educating consumers with a simple intervention.

Physicians have also increasingly performed this deep-vein thrombosis treatment on an outpatient basis, a decade's worth of Medicare claims data show. 

The two companies detailed their new “timing agreement” with the Department of Justice in a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. 

This 0.32 percentage-point change since 1990 placed imaging last among 16 specialties, tied with emergency medicine, experts detailed in JAMA.