Lawmakers have advanced two differing legislative proposals to address this issue, with one drawing favor from radiologists and other specialties. 

The ACR Association's political action committee surpassed this dollar mark for the ninth consecutive year in a row, officials noted. 

HCCI analyzed more than 2.5 billion de-identified claims, including those for prescription drugs as well as medical visits, filed from 2014 to 2018 with Aetna, Humana, Kaiser Permanente and UnitedHealthcare.

Under the novel methodology, medical students interpret images themselves and receive feedback from instructors, taking them off the sidelines and into the reading room.

Rural U.S. populations often suffer poor access to healthcare services. The cracks many patients fall through are not the fault of radiology per se. However, researchers and rural radiologists agree that much imaging ground must be gained if location-based disparities are to be cut down to size.

A 92.6% reduction in the list price of tafamidis—an effective but ultimately unaffordable drug designed to treat transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy—would be required to make the medication accessible to the average heart patient, researchers reported in Circulation Feb. 12.

Ochsner Health, the 41-hospital system serving Louisiana, Mississippi and the Gulf South, is joining the ranks of academic medical institutions committed to paying the tuition of homegrown future physicians.

Administrator Seema Verma recently revealed that her agency has identified such changes as a top priority in 2020.