New Technology Add-On Payments (NTAP) are a class of reimbursement that are meant to help pay for new technology that is not included in the DRG bundled payment. Specifically, NTAP recognizes that current DRG payment rates can be a barrier to adopting new technology and represents an additional payment for hospital stays that use new technology determined by CMS to provide substantial clinical improvement and where the current DRG payment would be inadequate.

Media outlets en masse captured the scenes this week when the first round of U.S. residents got inoculated with a COVID-19 vaccine.

Organizations including the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging voiced their support for S. 5007 in a letter written to five Republican senators on Monday

With the Closing the Results Follow-up Loop on Incidental Findings project moving to its next phase, college leaders want feedback from rads and patients. 

Plus, the Society for Pediatric Radiology names its 2020 Pioneer Award winner and ASCO fills out its leadership roles.

Lawmakers said they hope to attach this "important new patient protection" to the end-of-year funding package. 

Three of the most influential associations in U.S. healthcare are joining voices to press all healthcare workers: Please get vaccinated against COVID-19.

The cardiologist had been held against his will for nearly one week.