From budgeting concerns to ensuring patient satisfaction, these are the most popular articles on Diagnostic Imaging this month.
From budgeting concerns to ensuring patient satisfaction, these are the most popular articles on Diagnostic Imaging this month.
1. White House Budget May Reduce Patient Access to Medical Imaging - Radiology groups are concerned the 2015 White House budget recommending prior uthorization of advanced medical imaging will limit patients’ access to tests.
2. Image IQ: 73-year-old with History of LungMassSuffers [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_crop","fid":"23692","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image media-image-right","id":"media_crop_4858393941600","media_crop_h":"319","media_crop_image_style":"-1","media_crop_instance":"1944","media_crop_rotate":"0","media_crop_scale_h":"0","media_crop_scale_w":"0","media_crop_w":"246","media_crop_x":"15","media_crop_y":"19","style":"height: 65px; width: 50px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; margin: 1px; float: right;","title":" ","typeof":"foaf:Image"}}]]Headaches - A 73-year-old male with history of a lung mass on recent chest radiograph presents with headaches. What’s your diagnosis?
3. Satisfaction Surveys in Radiology: How to Collect and Use Data - Satisfaction surveys are a great way to gather data and identify areas that need improvement.
4. Imaging Admins Concerned About Reimbursement - Medical imaging managers have very low confidence about receiving adequate reimbursement from Medicare, according to the latest MICI report.
5. Preparing Clinicians for Managing Adverse Contrast Reaction - Didactic module helps prepare clinicians for managing adverse reactions to media, but more training is still needed.
A Victory for Radiology: New CMS Proposal Would Provide Coverage of CT Colonography in 2025
July 12th 2024In newly issued proposals addressing changes to coverage for Medicare services in 2025, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced its intent to provide coverage of computed tomography colonography (CTC) for Medicare beneficiaries in 2025.
The Reading Room: Artificial Intelligence: What RSNA 2020 Offered, and What 2021 Could Bring
December 5th 2020Nina Kottler, M.D., chief medical officer of AI at Radiology Partners, discusses, during RSNA 2020, what new developments the annual meeting provided about these technologies, sessions to access, and what to expect in the coming year.
ACR Collaborative Model Leads to 35 Percent Improvement with Mammography Positioning Criteria
July 1st 2024Noting significant variation with facilities for achieving passing criteria for mammography positioning, researchers found that structured interventions, ranging from weekly auditing of images taken by technologists to mechanisms for feedback from radiologists to technologists, led to significant improvements in a multicenter study.
New Study Shows Non-Radiologists Interpreting 28 Percent of Imaging for Medicare Patients
June 28th 2024While radiologists interpreted approximately 99 percent of all non-cardiac CT, MRI and nuclear medicine studies in hospital and emergency department settings for Medicare beneficiaries, new research shows significantly less radiologist review of cardiac imaging and office-based imaging.