Hospitals face a Jan. 1 deadline to implement more than 80 billing code changes in service lines affecting nearly 13% of ...

Treating liver cancer and liver metastases — cancer that has spread to the liver from elsewhere in the body — is challenging. Most patients are not candidates for surgery because there are many tumors ...

We have the future of medicine," boasts Dr. Barry Stein, a leader of the Society of Interventional Radiology. Not so fast, doctors in other specialties would reply--while most of us might ask, "Just ...

Do not drink alcoholic beverages and do not smoke for two days prior and two days after your procedure, since this may impair the healing process. Do not eat any food six to eight hours prior to your ...

A procedure can preserve fertility and potentially save the lives of women with a serious pregnancy complication called placenta accreta. Results of the new study showed that placement of balloons in ...

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah (the U) has opened its first specialized angiography-CT suite to enhance ...

Interventional radiology ASCs have more ways than ever to collect for procedures, thanks to a surge in the number of billing codes supporting these facilities, according to Mark F. Weiss and Cecilia ...

"The elevation of interventional radiology to a specialty level with its own distinct residency program places IR on the same level as surgery, pediatrics, and internal medicine," says one proponent.

Interventional radiology (IR) is transforming uterine fibroid and ovarian disorder treatment, offering innovative, less invasive alternatives to surgery. Uterine Fibroid Embolization (UFE) and ...

Lucas Ramage found out he was sick by accident. During a routine insurance application, his blood work uncovered higher-than-normal liver enzyme levels which resulted in his application being denied.