CMS announced a change in its payment policy to make it easier for patients with implantable cardiac devices to receive reimbursement for MRI scans.

The NIH has announced the formation of a five-year, $70 million effort to organize, coordinate and otherwise accelerate new research into Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.

The opioid epidemic continues to make headlines as it takes lives across the country. One radiologists sees how the industry can do more to engage patients in this vulnerable population.

Despite attracting less than two percent of NIH grants for medical research, radiology may hold a large chunk of medicine’s future in its hands. And the most mind-boggling advances may come from the modality most picked on for being too pricey.

Should a radiologist be a direct communicator to patients? Should they help physicians diagnose and manage patients? Or can they do both?

HealthImaging sat down with RSNA President Richard Ehman, MD, to talk about RSNA 2017 and reinventing radiology. 

Two years ago a Duke University radiology professor filed an antitrust lawsuit against her employer, accusing Duke of colluding with the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill to thwart either school’s faculty members who might seek to move laterally between the two institutions. Danielle Seaman, MD, said she’d been locked out of a position she desired at UNC-CH by such an arrangement.

Anthem’s recent decision to no longer pay for outpatient CT and MR exams performed in hospitals didn’t come from nowhere—and, going forward, the move is not likely to be an outlier among private payers’ business stratagems.