Providing women with financial incentives to undergo breast cancer screening did not lead to significantly more of them receiving a mammogram, according to a randomized, controlled trial. The women all had private insurance through the Tufts health plan in Massachusetts.

Value-based payments in radiology are here, and they are evolving fast. Nobody knows how they will morph, stretch, bend or otherwise play out in practice over the coming weeks, months and years. But there’s no more time to sit around waiting to find out before taking steps to adjust and prepare.

Should 20- to 29-pack-year smokers be screened for lung cancer via low-dose CT just like those with 30-plus pack-years? 

Radiology should be shouting from the rooftops about the value they provide in order to avoid being commoditized. Despite this, the specialty lags behind in terms of measuring outcome-based quality metrics.

A free-to-use online calculator to help providers assess the cost of nuclear stress tests is now available from University Nuclear & Diagnostics (UND).

Since the ACA was passed in 2010, straight talk on the law has been hard to come by. However a few of the top stories from the past month have looked at some trends in the post-ACA world.

First-rate speakers, timely subjects, real-time interaction with presenters and peers, new interactive features, plus extensive resources and CPEs–all straight to your desktop on September 17, 2015. For executives and finance professionals in provider, payer, and vendor settings.

It’s no secret that healthcare in the U.S. provides comparatively poor value. That’s not an opinion. It’s a fact, as costs are high relative to outcomes compared to other Western nations. What can the profession of radiology do to help reduce the former while simultaneously improving the latter?