Acceletronics is introducing the new Theraview KV Imaging image-guided radiation therapy system for radiation oncology facilities at the 51st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) chose not to establish a U.S. pricing reimbursement rate for mobile cardiovascular (CV) telemetry (CPT Code 93229) in the Medicare final rule for the physician fee schedule for calendar year 2010.

With the exception of evaluation and management services, nearly all services that cardiologists perform will see cuts ranging from 10 percent to more than 40 percent for individual services phased in over four years, according to the just-released Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule final rule. The cuts will be phased in over a four-year period, which is a slight change from the proposed rule.

Democrats from the U.S. House of Representatives on Oct. 30 unveiled a revised healthcare reform proposalH.R. 3692, the Affordable Health Care for America Actwhich the Congressional Budget Office estimated carries an $894 billion price tag for the federal government.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) Monday released a report outlining how profiling physicians to give them confidential feedback on their Medicare spending could potentially save money for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

X-ray imaging company Ziehm Imaging and BrainLAB of Feldkirchen, Germany, have extended their cooperation to assist surgeons in the intra-operative guidance of pedicle screw and hardware placement during surgical trauma and spinal instrumentation procedures.

The use of chemotherapy concurrently with radiotherapy for patients with advanced head and neck cancer (who havent undergone previous surgery) reduces disease recurrence, the development of new tumors and death, according to a study published online Oct. 27 in the Lancet Oncology.

According to a study published online Oct. 26 in Health Affairs, EHR adoption by hospitals that serve a large population of poor patients should be a major policy goal of health reform measures.