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		<title>Replacing a Local Radiology Group</title>
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 An interesting article in California’s Hanford Sentinel fairly details the story of Adventist Health Central Valley Network replacing its local radiology group with the national teleradiology-driven radiology group Radisphere—the group formerly known as Franklin &#38; Seidelmann. Radisphere took over reading duties for Adventist Health Central Valley Network early this year.
“The decision to go with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gvpub.com/rtblog/?p=458</link>
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		<title>Appropriate, Safe, and Advantageous for Radiology</title>
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Concern about growing imaging costs and widespread awareness of radiation exposure issues has drawn unwanted attention to radiology. Don’t expect that to change soon.
Given those facts, the American College of Radiology’s recent statement about an article on CT scan safety published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine outlines how ACR is trying to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gvpub.com/rtblog/?p=455</link>
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		<title>Radiologist Sue Hospital Over Suite Access</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Six Interventional Radiologists are suing Sutter Medical Center Sacramento over access to procedure suites, according to this article from the Sacramento Business Journal. Sutter Medical Center replaced the IR&#8217;s radiology group earlier this year, so it wouldn&#8217;t be surprising to see legal action happen as fallout from terminating a long-standing relationship.
This situation seems like one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gvpub.com/rtblog/?p=453</link>
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		<title>The SGR Dance Continues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The House of Representative passed the Senate&#8217;s six-month &#8220;SGR fix&#8221; and the Sustainable Growth Rate dance continues. Physicians will receive a 2.2% increase instead of the 21% cut mandated by the law that ties Medicare rate growth to  growth in domestic product. Stay tuned for the next short-term fix in about 5 1/2 months.
Congress once [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gvpub.com/rtblog/?p=451</link>
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		<title>ACR Release New Manual on Contrast Media</title>
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Often there is an uncomfortable gap between questioning whether a drug or medical device is safe and having proof that it is unsafe. The radiology community has been navigating in that space with gadolinium-based contrast agents. The new version of the ACR&#8217;s Manual on Contrast Media recognizes and addresses that issue: &#8220;While various factors may [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gvpub.com/rtblog/?p=448</link>
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		<title>Therapeutic Ultrasound as Male Contraceptive</title>
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It&#8217;s Friday and time for a little medical news of the weird.
If I have an outpatient imaging center or IR practice, this is one service I don&#8217;t want to get involved with: therapeutic ultrasound as a temporary male contraceptive.
A Fox News report detailed research at the University of North Carolina using therapeutic ultrasound to heat [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gvpub.com/rtblog/?p=445</link>
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		<title>Surgeons Interpreting Mammograms?</title>
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Can breast surgeons be taught to read mammograms as well as radiologists do? One study certainly thinks so.
South African research presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Breast Surgeons earlier this month suggests that surgeons can be trained to read mammograms as well as radiologists. A prospective study of 10,020 mammograms found [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gvpub.com/rtblog/?p=442</link>
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		<title>TV Report Goes After RBM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Radiology Benefits Manager (RBM) MedSolutions and Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Delaware are under scrutiny in Delaware for the RBM&#8217;s denial pattern for nuclear stress tests, according to a report from CBS affiliate KYW TV in Philadelphia. The story focuses on repeated denials of nuclear stress testing for a Delaware man Mike Fields, who when admitted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gvpub.com/rtblog/?p=438</link>
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