By Dave Adler, assistant director of government relations On March 4, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) discussed potential changes to the self-referral law for radiation therapy for the third time but said it is not yet ready to make...
By Dave Adler, assistant director of government relations Theodore DeWeese, M.D., chair of the department of radiation oncology and molecular radiation sciences at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, testified March 4, 2010, at a hearing...
The AATS Annual Meeting in Toronto on May 1-4, 2010, will include a scientific program featuring a number of faculty lectures and abstract presentations pertaining to thoracic oncology. The program will also include the opportunity to tour the Thoracic...
The Current State of the Art Techniques for IMRT, IGRT and SBRT Symposium is scheduled for May 14-16, 2010, at the Fairmont Hotel in Dallas. For more information, visit www.astro.org/meetings .
Submit your latest scientific findings, practice-changing research and clinical trial outcomes before April 8, 2010, at 11:59 p.m. Eastern time to be considered for the 2010 Annual Meeting. To be eligible, abstracts must be completed online (no last minute...
Do you know an outstanding minority medical student? If so, encourage them to apply for the 2010 Minority Summer Fellowship Award. The application deadline has been extended to March 31 in an effort to recruit outstanding applicants. The Fellowship Award...
The 2010 Chicago Multidisciplinary Symposium in Thoracic Oncology will be held December 9-11, 2010, at the Hilton Chicago. Registration and housing will open in early May and the Call for Abstracts will open in early May and close July 14, 2010. Visit...
The March 31, 2010, early-bird registration deadline is fast approaching, so don’t miss out on discounted rates for the 2010 Spring Refresher being held April 23-25, 2010, at the Westin Michigan Avenue in Chicago. For more information about the...
The Radiation Oncology Institute has issued a request for proposals to conduct a national research needs assessment for radiation oncology. The results of this national assessment will be the main tool ROI will use to set the national research needs agenda...
CMS eliminated payment on consultation services for fee-for-service Medicare beginning January 1, 2010. Providers are being advised to report E/M visit codes for consultation services. To assist providers with the implementation of this new policy, CMS...
Practical Radiation Oncology will begin publication in 2011 with the primary objective to improve the quality of radiation oncology practice. Help ASTRO make this journal a true benefit to its members by taking a short, six-question survey to us shape...
AAPM and ASTRO are hosting Safety in Radiation Therapy - A Call to Action, June 24-25. This conference is aimed to inform all members of the treatment team, as well as manufacturers and regulators, on ways to improve the safety and quality of radiation...
As part of the Target Safely campaign ASTRO's Communications Committee and the Multidisciplinary Quality Assurance Committee have developed a list of questions patients may want to ask their doctors about the safety of their radiation therapy treatments...
On March 2, the Senate voted 78-19 to pass H.R. 4691, the Temporary Extension Act of 2010, which includes provisions to extend 2009 Medicare physician payment rates through the end of the month. As a result, the 21 percent payment cut that took effect...
Andrew Kennedy M.D. , co-medical director at Wake Radiology Oncology in Cary, N.C., was named to the Board of Directors of Striving for More , a nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring that children with cancer and their families receive quality...
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