The HHS Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) Fiscal Year 2015 Work Plan includes three ongoing imaging-related projects, according to the American College of Radiology (ACR).

State legislation has played a role in boosting overall healthcare utilization rates in children with concussions, though the laws have done little to change CT scan rates specifically, according to a study published online Dec. 22 in JAMA Pediatrics.

Advanced care practitioners are 34 percent more likely than a primary care physicians to prescribe an imaging exam, according to a study published Nov. 24 in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Despite a general slowdown in imaging utilization overall, the rates of emergency department imaging continue to increase across the country, according to a recent study in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

One of the side effects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act championed by its supporters was supposed to be a drop in emergency department (ED) volumes, however, an editorial published online Sept. 26 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology argues this drop may not be realized.

The Image Gently® campaign has developed online educational and scientific materials to help dental professionals optimize radiation dose used in imaging exams performed on children. Image Gently has also produced downloadable materials to help parents ask more informed questions of their dental providers whenever scans are recommended for their children.

U.S. healthcare spending will slow by 1.5 percent over the next decade, but will grow by two percent this year, according to a report from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Defensive medicine is the main culprit for wasting up to nearly $12 billion on unneeded imaging exams each year in the U.S., according to a survey done by peer60, a research company based in American Fork, Utah.