Introduction On August 28, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) final rule for federal fiscal year (FY) 2024 Medicare hospital inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) and long-term care hospital prospective payment system (LTCH PPS) was published in the Federal Register (the Final CMS 2024 Rule). The Final CMS 2024 Rule updates Medicare…

Introduction Imalogix, as the industry leader in image quality assessment, is the perfect partner to support your facility in achieving CMS's ambitious objectives for enhanced image quality. The Focus on Quality CMS is actively contemplating the incorporation of new metrics aimed at enhancing CT image quality. Despite this progressive initiative, numerous hospitals are currently facing…

Introduction Pediatric radiation dose exposure is of particular concern because children are more vulnerable to the potentially harmful effects of radiation than adults are. Due to the fundamental mechanisms by which radiation harms living tissue growing organs and tissue are more sensitive to radiation, they undergo significantly more cell division than those of adults which…