The executive director of the Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance (MITA) decried “humongous hits” to radiation oncology last week, a sentiment that echoes earlier statements from the president of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).

Hospital Compare, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) website that provides the public with data on various hospital quality measures, has added two more outpatient medical imaging use statistics.

Crux Biomedical announced it has received FDA clearance for its new Crux Vena Cava Filter (VCF), which Crux Biomedical claims is the first and only VCF designed to facilitate bi-directional retrieval through either the femoral or jugular veins, a key consideration when access to one or the other vein is limited.

As an eye surgeon, Sen. Rand Paul, MD (R, Ky.), knows the problems associated with the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula that helps determine Medicare physician pay. However, eliminating the SGR may not have been his only motivation in introducing the Access to Physicians in Medicare Act (S. 3337), and that makes it a non-started with Democrats

Fairfield Medical Center in Lancaster, Ohio, has purchased River View Imaging Center from Columbus-based Mount Carmel Health System for a little more than $800,000, according to a Lancaster Eagle-Gazette report.

Crestwood Hospital and the city of Madison, Alabama held a ceremony on July 12, to break ground on a new $7.5 million outpatient diagnostic and imaging facility.

Virtual Radiologic (vRad) congratulated its Chief Medical Officer and Chief Operating Officer, Pat Basu, MD, for his election to the Council on Foreign Relations and his recent appointment to the Illinois State Board of Health.

The Fairmont Le Chateau Frontenac hotel has partnered with a private radiology clinic in Quebec City to offer a "medical tourism package," claiming this is the first of its kind in Canada.