Device manufacturer Sirtex Medical paid the highest total to IR physicians at more than $5.1 million, Johns Hopkins researchers reported. 

The Indianapolis-based payer had placed guardrails around reimbursement for some hospital-based imaging, but relented after "thoughtful" discussions with radvocates.  

Conflicts of interest and undisclosed financial associations may pose a problem for many medical journals.

“Measuring healthcare spending by race and ethnicity is important for understanding patterns in utilization and treatment,” researchers said.

Some patients have little understanding about the role of the radiologist or how it differs from the technologist, but Belgian providers are educating consumers with a simple intervention.

Physicians have also increasingly performed this deep-vein thrombosis treatment on an outpatient basis, a decade's worth of Medicare claims data show. 

Frank Giargiana Jr., MD, was forced to step out of the reading room and face his diagnosis from a new perspective, sharing his journey in Radiology: Imaging Cancer.

The FDA has requested additional data before approving roxadustat.