The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented the new requirements to improve consistency in CT scan ...

The imaging tool used to diagnose bone injuries, cancer and other diseases may expose patients to unnecessarily high ...

Bindman, a professor at the University of California-San Francisco medical school, has spent well over a decade researching ...

Hospitals and imaging centers are now required to track and report radiation exposure from CT scans under new Medicare regulations. The rules, which began rolling out in January, come as ...

In the United States, around 93 million CT scans are performed every year, notes IMV, which is a medical market research ...

Rebecca Smith-Bindman, a professor at the University of California-San Francisco medical school, has spent well over a decade researching the disquieting risk that one of modern medicine’s most ...

One CT scan can expose a patient to 10 or 15 times as much radiation as another, Smith-Bindman said. “There is very large variation,” she said, “and the doses vary by an order of magnitude ...