Zubin Damania, MD—aka ZDoggMD—took RBMA attendees on a hilarious and subversive ride through his career in medicine, employing shock tactics, bathroom humor and family references, all calculated to drive home a deadly serious message: The culture in medicine must change.

Snapshots from the RBMA Spring Summit, held in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 7-9, 2015 at Caesar's Palace.

Felix Roque, MD, the mayor of West New York, N.J., has been indicted by a state grand jury on numerous charges related to the “Operation RayScam” radiology kickback scheme. Rogue faces charges of second-degree healthcare claims fraud, second-degree commercial bribery and third-degree running.

After a long delay, the Joint Commission’s revised requirements for diagnostic imaging services go into effect on July 1, with significant dose-management implications for providers of CT. The requirements, first announced in January, apply to all accredited organizations that provide diagnostic imaging services.

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before – a new bill has been introduced to the House of Representatives that aims to change ICD-10 implementation. This latest bill would not delay implementation, but it creates a two-year grace period for physicians.

And now, time for a little good news. All physicians billing to Medicare are receiving a 0.5% increase in the conversion factor used to determine reimbursement payments.

Two-thirds of physicians are skeptical of giving patients access to their “entire medical record,” according to a new poll conducted by the physician social network SERMO.

Patients often don’t understand who a radiologist is or what they do – as Rodney Dangerfield would have said, they “don’t get no respect.” But a patient’s perceptions about the specialty as a whole can be greatly improved by a brief face-to-face meeting with a radiologist, according to findings made available by Daniel E. Marrero, MD, and colleagues at the American College of Radiology’s ACR 2015 Annual Meeting.