Medicare was the primary payer for 90 percent of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) hospitalizations over a recent three-year period, according to a March 19 report in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions. With that in mind, the recent proposal to cut $473 billion from the CMS budget over the next decade could limit access to the increasingly popular procedure, researchers noted.

Draper, a not-for-profit research and development company, announced an agreement with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to bring ultrasound imaging systems to developing countries to help address high-risk pregnancies.

Wolters Kluwer Health acquired Firecracker, an adaptive learning and study-planning application used by 20 percent of medical students, following a March 5 announcement of a signed agreement.

Harvard Medical School has the country’s highest-ranked radiology program for incoming graduate students, beating out competitors such as Johns Hopkins and Stanford for first place, the U.S. News and World Report announced this month.

Limiting medical residents to 16-hour work shifts, instead of allowing for longer stretches, increased satisfaction with training but did not affect overall educational outcomes. Findings were published March 20 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Unconscious patients suffering from blunt neck injuries may benefit more from a CT scan without a follow-up MRI, reducing excessive costs on imaging exams, according to a study led by Ajay Malhotra, MBBS, MD, associate professor of radiology and biomedical imaging at Yale.

Omar A. Almusa, a 45-year-old Pittsburgh radiologist, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for unlawfully dispensing controlled substances and healthcare fraud.

Linda Gates-Striby raised some eyebrows at the American College of Cardiology’s Cardiovascular Summit in February when, in one PowerPoint slide, she showed how much proper documentation and coding could affect a hospital’s quality measures, bottom line—and even a doctor’s reputation.