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09.19.11
ACR urges ‘supercommittee’ to spare imaging from budget cuts
The American College of Radiology asked the so-called supercommittee, a group of senators and congressmen tasked with slashing $1.2-1.5 trillion from the national budget, to spare imaging in any future Medicare cuts. In a Sept. 13 letter to the committee, a 12-member panel filled equally by Republicans and Democrats, the ACR said advanced imaging (CT, MRI, PET) has unfairly been the main target of Medicare cuts over the past six years. And the scale of the cuts has forced some radiologists to shut their doors.
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09.16.11
After RBM challenge, Del. requires Blue Cross to adopt appropriate use
Tim Trysla, executive director of Access to Medical Imaging Coalition (AMIC), applauded the decision and noted that there is no research showing that RBMs achieve the long-term cost savings that proponents claim they do.
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09.13.11
Most cases of dementia are not diagnosed: report
(Reuters) – About 28 million of the nearly 36 million people living with Alzheimer’s and other dementias have not been diagnosed, robbing them from the benefit of treatments and the chance to have a say in their future care, according to a report released Tuesday.
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08.19.11
Hospitalizations following CT scans in emergency departments fall by half
Newly published data from more than 350,000 patient visits show that hospital admissions after a scan in the ED fell by more than half.
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08.16.11
‘Super Committee:’ What’s To Become Of Medicare, Medicaid?
Although President Barack Obama continues to make clear that, in his view, reforming these entitlement programs is necessary to find budget savings, one policy expert says such cuts might have very little impact on deficit spending.
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08.14.11
A breast cancer breakthrough?
In what doctors hope is a big step forward, new 3-D mammograms promise better detection and fewer false alarms for hundreds of thousands of American women.
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08.10.11
JACR: New System Curbs Patient ID Errors
A four-step process reduced patient identification errors in medical imaging and offered a useful, easy, quick and relevant process for staff members, according to a study published in the August issue of Journal of American College of Radiology.
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08.9.11
How Debt Deal Could Squeeze Medicare Pay Even More
The last-minute agreement that lawmakers and the White House reached to avoid a default on the nation’s debt also considerably raises the stakes for physicians pushing for congressional action on Medicare payment before the end of the year.
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08.5.11
Research Points to Alzheimer’s Early Toll
An explosion of new research bolsters an emerging view that a “silent phase” of Alzheimer’s disease begins ravaging the brain years or even decades before patients have enough symptoms to be diagnosed.
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08.3.11
JACR Articles Address Dose Reductions in CT
Radiation dose from CT can be reduced significantly, according to a pair of articles in the current issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
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