The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) announced Tuesday, May 8, that Lisa Spellman has been hired as the organization’s general-secretary for DICOM international. Spellman will be responsible for leading and managing “operational affairs for DICOM stakeholders worldwide.”

In her remarks at the American Hospital Association’s annual meeting, CMS Administrator Seema Verma, MPH, offered some criticism of current accountable care organizations (ACOs) that haven’t taken on downside risk, hinting those payment models may be targeted by CMS regulations.

In an imaging landscape where 64 percent of recommendations for supplemental screening are ignored by referring physicians, radiologists face a legal question: To what extent are they responsible for making sure colleagues follow through on their advice?

Children see a higher rate of nodule malignancy in the thyroid than adults, clinicians confirmed in a recent Radiology study. Also, despite a handful of similarities in signs and symptoms, the younger demographic is faced with some unique biomarkers.

President Donald Trump is looking to a rarely-utilized process called “rescission” to cut $15 billion in federal spending he already signed into law earlier this year—with much of the reductions coming from programs like the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

Flexible Image Capture Settings Help Optimize Visualization of
Bones, Soft Tissue, Other Areas of Interest

California’s breast density law is scheduled to expire in January 2019. To gauge the feelings of people most affected by this possible expiration, Are You Dense and Are You Dense Advocacy surveyed more than 500 women between the ages of 40 and 74 who live in California and have had a mammogram within the last two years.

Kansas’s proposal to impose a three-year lifetime limit on Medicaid benefits has been formally rejected by CMS, with Administrator Seema Verma, MPH, saying the agency has to ensure the program “remains a safety net for those that need it most.”