When Congress passed a $1.1 trillion Omnibus Spending Bill in December 2015, it included a rollback of the professional component (PC) Multiple Procedure Payment Reduction (MPPR) from 25 percent to 5 percent. The reduction was applauded at the time by organizations such as the American College of Radiology (ACR) and has now been in effect since January 2017. So what kind of impact is this policy shift having on radiologists in the U.S.?

A 2.3-percent tax on the sale of medical devices officially returned Jan. 1. The tax had been suspended for two years, but that pause ran out when 2017 ended.

As healthcare providers throughout the world fight to improve breast screening utilization, researchers in Australia looked into the impact individual technologists, or radiographers, can have on getting patients to return in the future.

The American College of Radiology (ACR) has updated and revised its appropriateness guidelines.

Radiology residency programs could potentially lose quality prospective residents because their websites don’t contain enough information, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Many radiologists want to communicate more directly with patients but feel constrained by time and their workload, according to a new study published in Radiology.

Women prefer to receive mammogram screenings annually rather than biennially, because they believe it causes less anxiety, according to a study presented at RSNA 2017.

The FDA issued a new Drug Safety Communication Tuesday that requires a warning to be placed on all gadolinium-based contrast agents (GBCAs) for MRI use. The warning should alert providers about the possibility that gadolinium could be retained in the patient’s body, including their brain, for an extended period of time after MRI.