The American College of Radiology (ACR) offered 24 Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes for valuation during the October 2018 American Medical Association (AMA) Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC) meeting in Chicago.

Beginning with services performed on Jan. 1, 2019, UnitedHealthcare will be reviewing the site of care for certain CT and MR imaging procedures to be performed in an outpatient hospital setting. Anthem implemented a similar policy in 2017.

Cardiovascular disease remains the world’s No. 1 killer, responsible for a third of global deaths every year. But, though the overall burden of CVD in developed countries is on a downward trajectory, cases of heart disease are actually increasing in some corners of the world.

Robert B. Ford has been named president and chief operating officer of Abbott, the company announced Oct. 15.

The mortality rate from breast cancer is down significantly among black women in Chicago, and area experts are attributing a lot of that success to the Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force.

NASHUA, N.H.and ATHENS, Greece,—iCAD, Inc.(NASDAQ: ICAD),a global medical technology leader providing innovative cancer detection and therapy solutions,today announced outstanding clinical results of its new, leading-edge digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) cancer detection software. The study demonstrated significant positive results for clinical performance and workflow efficiency.

Heather Frimmer, MD, a Connecticut-based breast and emergency room radiologist sought to “do something a little more creative” and forayed into writing a novel that highlights an important topic she manages at her day job—cancer diagnosis.

GE Healthcare has officially launched the Invenia Automated Breast Ultrasound (ABUS) 2.0 in the United States after installing the equipment in other parts of the world since 2014.