Judging by thousands of insurance claims, spinal manipulation does little to tamp down the overall costs of treating low-back pain. Further, the popular therapy is often preceded by costly and unnecessary imaging exams.

Opportunities for individuals thinking about becoming medical-imaging technologists are opening up in Northern California, where demand is increasing and the Gurnick Academy of Medical Arts has begun offering certificate and two-year associate degrees from a new campus in in Sacramento County.

Siemens CFO Ralf Thomas expressed the company's continued interest in splitting off Siemens Healthineers, its healthcare division. He said Siemens is exploring three potential paths: a spinoff, an initial public offering or a reverse merger with a public company.

Congressmen Ryan Costello, R-Pennsylvania, and Scott Peters, D-California, were commended by the Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) for introducing bipartisan legislation to ensure consistency in regulation for the proper servicing of medical devices.

CMS’s Quality Payment Program (QPP), which went live with the 2015 enactment of MACRA, represents the biggest single development in U.S. healthcare since President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare and Medicaid into law in 1965.

Around a quarter of the CT installed base in Europe is so outdated that it can’t be upgraded with the latest advances in, for example, radiation dose-management and reiterative reconstruction. 

Using the National Cancer Database (NCDB), researchers set out to find the potential cost savings associated with an evidence-based radiation treatment (RT) approach among women in the United States with early-stage breast cancer.

Hospital leaders in Iowa are concerned that a proposed easing of the state’s certificate-of-need process would pave the way for for-profit outpatient businesses, including radiology centers, to set up shop and cherry-pick the most lucrative services to provide.