A London, Kentucky, cardiologist was sentenced to 42 months in federal prison Oct. 31 after reportedly implanting “dozens” of unnecessary pacemakers and defrauding both his patients and their insurers, U.S. Attorney Robert M. Duncan, Jr., has announced.

CMS Administrator Seema Verma further waded into the debate over Medicare for all on Halloween when she tweeted an image of a "Medicare for all" T-shirt with the comment that it's the “scariest Halloween costume" of the year.

MEDNAX has announced the acquisition of Associates in Diagnostic Radiology, a privately owned radiology practice located in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

CMS finalized the 2019 home health prospective payment system, cementing a new payment model for the post-acute care space in 2020 and increasing payments for 2019.

A hospital IT worker’s Reddit post recently grabbed the attention of the medical imaging community when he discovered a newly installed MRI machine appeared to disable every Apple device in the hospital, according to a report published Oct. 30 by Motherboard.com.

The FDA will allow genetic testing company 23andMe to market personal genome reports as a direct-to-consumer test of a person’s ability to metabolize some medications to help inform discussions with healthcare providers.

Radiologist Timothy Mosher, MD, has developed a first-of-its-kind medical school course that seeks to pinpoint “systemic causes of misdiagnosis” and identify ways of preventing such cases.

A research team led by Bharti Khurana, MD, of the department of radiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, is working to create a program that can identify signs of intimate partner violence (IPV) in imaging results.