On April 9, 2014, CMS released its Medicare Provider Utilization and Payment Data, a dataset representing an aggregation of 2012 volume, charge, and payment information by physician, by CPT code, by place of service—more than 9 million records.

Despite a decade of reimbursement cuts, three practices manage to thrive by employing innovative tactics and setting new standards of service in radiology

Healthcare in the U.S. is shifting toward management of population health, and several models for radiology practice involvement have emerged

A new era in healthcare is inspiring radiology practices to reach across traditional boundaries and forge alliances with hospitals, health systems, and other practices

An act of Congress opened the door for clinical decision-support for advanced imaging in U.S. hospitals: The radiologist is key to the initiative’s success

NEW YORK (July 1, 2014) — In response to a recent national study showing that CT scans in a select high-risk population lower lung cancer deaths, NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center has launched a lung cancer screening program for those at risk for developing the disease. The program uses low-dose CT scans to detect cancer in its earliest stages, giving patients a significantly better chance to survive the disease. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death for men and women in the United States and current data shows that most lung cancers are diagnosed at an advanced stage.

Scottsdale, Ariz., July 1, 2014 – PHS Technologies Group LLC, a unit of PACSHealth LLC and developer of software that monitors patient exposure to ionizing radiation, today announced that Dell Healthcare and Life Sciences will become a marketing, distribution and hosting partner for its DoseMonitor® OnLine software solution.

The eye-popping jury award to the daughter of a Boston woman who succumbed to lung cancer could not have come at a more sobering time. The specialty of radiology is preparing to embark on a new public screening initiative in the form of low-dose CT lung-cancer screening, and a radiologist is successfully sued for missing a nodule on an x-ray in 2005, a notoriously difficult read under any circumstances, but especially in the ED, with little or no access to patient history.