
ASTRO presses Congress on radiation oncology payment cuts
ASTRO members visited Capitol Hill to urge action on Medicare radiation therapy cuts, ROCR payment reform, and prior-authorization legislation affecting cancer care access.
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ASTRO members visited Capitol Hill to urge action on Medicare radiation therapy cuts, ROCR payment reform, and prior-authorization legislation affecting cancer care access.

Australia’s Professional Services Review said an unnamed diagnostic radiologist agreed to repay $3.6M after concerns over high-volume Medicare billing, altered requests, unclear supervision, and inadequate records.

Plus Therapeutics began manufacturing activities and technology transfer with SpectronRx to support late-stage clinical supply of Reyobiq, its rhenium-186 radiopharmaceutical candidate for CNS cancers.

HOPPR introduced the MC Chest Radiography Narrative Model, a vision-language model that converts frontal and lateral chest X-rays into structured narrative text for radiology workflow applications.

Researchers reported that ¹⁷⁷Lu-AKIR001 achieved complete remission in 40% of treated mice with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma xenografts.

The 2026 guidelines add AI-based mammogram analysis as a five-year breast cancer risk assessment option starting at age 35.

The companies plan to combine TAG1’s portable lead-212 generator with NRG Pallas’ radium-224 production capabilities for cancer drug developers in Europe.

The clearance covers Rembra CT for diagnostic imaging and 2 radiation therapy planning systems, Rembra RT and Areta RT.

SimonMed selected AIRS Medical’s SwiftMR as its enterprise-wide MRI enhancement platform. The FDA-cleared software will be deployed across SimonMed’s national outpatient imaging network.

The Novasight Hybrid System combines IVUS and OCT imaging in a single platform for intravascular imaging of coronary arteries.