The 2021 National Defense Authorization Act now moves on to President Trump, who has indicated his plans to veto the bill for non-healthcare reasons.

At their peak, virtual consults accounted for 22.8 mean weekly visits at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, physicians explained.

New Technology Add-On Payments (NTAP) are a class of reimbursement that are meant to help pay for new technology that is not included in the DRG bundled payment. Specifically, NTAP recognizes that current DRG payment rates can be a barrier to adopting new technology and represents an additional payment for hospital stays that use new technology determined by CMS to provide substantial clinical improvement and where the current DRG payment would be inadequate.

Organizations including the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging voiced their support for S. 5007 in a letter written to five Republican senators on Monday

The 365-bed New York facility recently notified 14 of its 19 assistant technologists that their positions would be eliminated as of Jan. 1.

Various scenarios within medical diagnostics are among the AI use cases that an official European watchdog has flagged as a potential source of hazards to fundamental human rights.

The bill mirrors the “Holding Providers Harmless from Medicare Cuts During COVID-19 Act of 2020,” previously introduced in the House and favored by rads.

ASRT on Monday signaled its support for House Resolution 8702, which would hold radiologists and other providers "harmless" from forthcoming Medicare changes.