To help combat the recent resurgence of black lung disease in U.S. coal miners, U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, recently introduced bipartisan legislation to increase participation in federal programs that treat or detect the disease through lung cancer screening, including lung CT scans.

The embattled Canberra Hospital in Australia is facing more scrutiny for being forced to send all inpatient CT scans to external providers last week due to unplanned leaves, the Canberra Times reported.

A JAMA analysis of more than three million non-Medicaid hospitalizations has found states that opted to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act years ago are now seeing lower rates of uninsured hospitalizations for major heart events.

Canberra Hospital in Canberra, Australia, was forced to outsource all inpatient CT exams to an external provider for a full week due to “an unplanned leave” within the radiology department

Nupur Verma, MD, with the radiology department at the University of Florida in Gainesville, and two colleagues explored how a radiologist can become more persuasive in an Aug. 23 commentary in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Health insurance and services provider Humana has teamed up with the University of Chicago Medicine in a value-based agreement to offer coordinated, patient-centered care to Humana’s Medicare Advantage (MA) members.

When the American College of Radiology (ACR) published the Lung CT Screening Reporting and Data System (Lung-RADS) in 2014, one of its goals was producing a lower false-positive rate than the 23.3 percent reported by the National Cancer Institute’s National Lung Screening Trial (NLST).

Feeling the pressure from the ever-growing presence of Amazon in the healthcare space, CVS Health and Walgreens are emphasizing their abilities to connect with patients face to face, Forbes reported.