With the world’s major producing reactors shutting down regularly or facing decommission, some enterprising solutions to medical isotope production are jockeying to pick up the slack in North America, according to a review published Dec. 11, 2013, inNature. Read more here.
The CMS is giving providers another year to show they've met the Stage 2 criteria of the federal government's incentive program to encourage the adoption and meaningful-use of electronic health records. That means the start of the next phase will be pushed back a year. Read more here.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s (ONC's) major announcement of a one-year extension for Meaningful Use (MU) Stage 2 got industry stakeholders talking. While there is added flexibility down the road, there remains no immediate relief as Stage 2 rolls out—leaving many in [...]
Continued scientific publications, legislative efforts, and public education about the value of CT colonography (CTC) are vital for achieving acceptance and reimbursement of the screening nationally, according to an article published in the December 2013 issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology. Read more here.
A new analysis of National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) data has found that as many as one-fifth of all lung cancer diagnoses may represent overdiagnosis -- that is, detection of indolent or slow-growing lung cancers that may never have harmed the patient, according to a report in JAMA Internal Medicine. Read more here.
By Thursday, December 5, RSNA was reporting total attendance of 53,169, essentially unchanged compared with Thursday attendance of 52,973 at the 2012 edition of the meeting. The 2012 meeting itself saw attendance decline 9% compared to 2011. Read more here.
Reversing its role as a major contributor to the growth in Medicare spending in the early 2000s, medical imaging spending growth is now in the bottom 2 percent of spending growth categories in 2011, according to a study published in the December issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology. Read more here.
The CMS is giving providers another year to show they've met the Stage 2 criteria of the federal government's incentive program to encourage the adoption and meaningful use of electronic health records. That means the start of the next phase will be pushed back a year. Read more here.
Across the U.S., more than 50% of Medicare payments for diagnostic imaging services are made to nonradiologists, suggests new research presented on Tuesday at the RSNA annual meeting. In fact, Medicare payments to nonradiologists for diagnostic imaging exceeds those to radiologists in 71% of states in the U.S., said Dr. David Rosman of Massachusetts General Hospital. Read [...]
Nationwide Medicare data show that rapid growth in the use of advanced imaging in the U.S. has stopped, according to a presentation given on Tuesday at the RSNA meeting. "Imaging has been widely perceived to be a major cost driver, growing too rapidly and often overused or unnecessary," said presenter Dr. David C. Levin of Thomas Jefferson [...]