Susan G. Komen said its suggestion applies to healthy women of average risk for the disease and is aimed at minimizing exposure while freeing up “needed health capacity."

Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University’s School of Medicine grabbed the top spot, with Harvard and the University of California, San Francisco, rounding out the top three. 

A recent survey found that younger rads are turned off by corporatization in the specialty. Radiology Business spoke with the author to better understand the results. 

Providers appear to be heeding that advice at varying degrees, with some practices turning away any coughing patients. 

A cut in Medicare payment may have contributed to the trend, driving doctors away from heart imaging methods that rely on ionizing radiation, experts wrote in Radiology. 

Consensus seems to be building against using computed tomography to diagnose the novel coronavirus, with another major society urging physicians away from the modality as a first-line tool. 

Commissioners are pushing a 0% fee-for-service reimbursement hike in the federal payment program, noting that patients appear to have ample access to care. 

The COVID-19 pandemic is creating a burning platform for hospitals and practices that are hesitant to let radiologists work remotely, and some big-name institutions are onboard with the idea.