Patients who are younger, unwed, live in disadvantaged neighborhoods, or lack adequate insurance are more likely to miss their exams.  

Contextualized reports differ from structured reports in that they focus on specific clinical indications, rather than a basic standardized checklist of anatomical regions that does not always address a particular concern.

Dharmesh Patel is on trial for three counts of attempted murder—one for each of the passengers in his vehicle when he plunged it down a 250-foot cliff.

A general lack of awareness pertaining to ACR appropriateness criteria could be a driving factor behind the misguided requisitions, authors of a new analysis suggest. 

The guidelines now urge all women to begin undergoing mammography every other year starting at age 40, with radiologists hoping for an annual recommendation. 

The case dates to June 2019 when whistleblower and Arizona IT executive Eric Stenson first filed suit against Tucson-based Radiology Limited. 

The suit claims the group wrongfully billed CMS for over $6 million in image reads that did not qualify for Medicare reimbursement due to the subpar computer monitors used to view the studies.

Congressional budget requirements mean that any pay bump to one fee-for-service provider type necessitates balancing cuts to others.