Adopting inclusive leadership roles may help the male-dominated specialty move away from bias, experts wrote in Academic Radiology. 

Doc groups believe the title change is "clearly an attempt" to move the PA profession toward independent practice. 

Absent passage of HR 3657, the profession is “in peril,” with RAs losing their jobs and left unable to practice to the full extent of their training, advocates said. 

This issue is particularly important as program directors strive to bolster female rad ranks and make the specialty more inclusive. 

An uptake scan, for instance, could cost nearly five times as much within the same institution, depending on the patient’s insurer.  

The two tech giants have now cleared a key hurdle to completing their merger, company officials revealed recently. 

NQF-endorsed measures serve as a "critically important foundation" for initiatives to enhance healthcare value, the American College of Radiology noted. 

"This study shows what many radiologists probably already expect: That private insurers have instituted broad prior authorization policies," one expert told Radiology Business.