With median annual pay of more than $300,000 and projected 10-year job growth of 15 percent, radiology ranks as one of the best career paths to pursue in the U.S.

Orders for Medicare-covered chest x-rays have dropped at a faster clip than those for chest CT and CT angiography (CTA) have risen in recent years, leading to a net decrease in overall noncardiac thoracic imaging. Meanwhile, radiologists’ role as the main providers of such imaging continues to help keep self-referral at bay. 

A medical-imaging company that sells mostly refurbished equipment—along with parts and services—out of the small town of Holt, Mich., has gotten a nice writeup in an affiliate outlet of USA Today.

Confused by recent payment model reform? At RSNA 2016, three practicing radiologists are scheduled to deliver a presentation all about the evolving financial landscape of medical imaging.

A dispute over poor patients’ access to radiology has been percolating in Connecticut since spring 2015, when the state’s general assembly voted to slash Medicaid payments to interpreting rads 42.5 percent. A recent review of claims filed in the wake of the cut has done little to settle the row. 

When healthcare spending varies widely from one geographical region to another, including for pricey procedures like imaging exams, which variable is more to blame—provider choices or patient preferences? 

If a picture paints a thousand words, perhaps a number paints a thousand pictures. Before you begin pondering the profundity of that possibility, consider some numbers that will fill out the picture you have in your mind of RSNA 2016 as you get ready to go. 

Many have noted that radiology has been in something of a funk ever since PACS started computerizing the field en masse, but few have described the situation with more dramatic impact than Robert Wachter, MD.