imagingBiz | The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on Tuesday announced a new plan offering bundled payments to physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers. As set forth in the Affordable Care Act, bundled payments comprise remuneration for a given patient’s entire episode of...
ImagingEconomics | Thanks to a new diagnostic imaging technique, physicians now have an objective test to evaluate patients for parkinsonian syndromes, such as Parkinson's disease. Northwestern Memorial Hospital is among the first institutions in the country to offer DaTscan™, the only FDA-approved imaging agent for...
imagingBiz | Whether allying themselves with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) or working with private payors, entities may, when attempting to form accountable care organizations (ACOs), make errors that impede the success of their endeavors, write two health care policy experts. In an...
DiagnosticImaging | It was the 250th anniversary of the birthdate of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The Human Genome Project published the last chromosome sequence in the publication, Nature. Pluto was demoted from ‘planet’ to ‘dwarf planet’ by the International Astronomic Union. It was 2006, and since...
AuntMinnie | Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) are using a technique called shutter-speed dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI to improve breast cancer diagnostic accuracy and reduce unnecessary biopsies, according to a study published online August 9 by Radiology. In the study sample of 92 tumors...