{"title":"Evaluating Patient Experience and Cost-Effectiveness in Same-Day Breast Biopsy Initiatives.","authors":"Qi Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.jacr.2025.05.023","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jacr.2025.05.023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73968,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144340762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jack Smith, Elliot K Fishman, Linda C Chu, Steven P Rowe, Charles K Crawford
{"title":"From Automation to Innovation: How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Global Industries.","authors":"Jack Smith, Elliot K Fishman, Linda C Chu, Steven P Rowe, Charles K Crawford","doi":"10.1016/j.jacr.2025.06.030","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jacr.2025.06.030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73968,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144340763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patient-Friendly Summary of the ACR Appropriateness Criteria®: Female Breast Cancer Screening: 2025 Update.","authors":"Aatiqah Aziz, Sonya Bhole","doi":"10.1016/j.jacr.2025.06.023","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jacr.2025.06.023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73968,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144340765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patient-Friendly Summary of the ACR Appropriateness Criteria®: Brain Tumors.","authors":"Grace Lee, Orit Ariel Glenn","doi":"10.1016/j.jacr.2025.06.025","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jacr.2025.06.025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73968,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144340764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Priscilla J Slanetz, Anastacia Wahl, James C Anderson, Anna Rozenshtein
{"title":"Radiology Residency Recruitment: The Perils and Promises of Seeking a \"Fit\".","authors":"Priscilla J Slanetz, Anastacia Wahl, James C Anderson, Anna Rozenshtein","doi":"10.1016/j.jacr.2025.06.027","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jacr.2025.06.027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73968,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144340768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patient-Friendly Summary of the ACR Appropriateness Criteria®: Suspected and Known Heart Failure: 2025 Update.","authors":"Sania Choudhary, Sonya Bhole","doi":"10.1016/j.jacr.2025.06.024","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jacr.2025.06.024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73968,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144340766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nina Capiro, Prasidda Khadka, James Sayre, Gelareh Sadigh, Anne Hoyt
{"title":"Effect of Fee Removal on the Use of Digital Breast Tomosynthesis to Minimize Health Care Disparities.","authors":"Nina Capiro, Prasidda Khadka, James Sayre, Gelareh Sadigh, Anne Hoyt","doi":"10.1016/j.jacr.2025.06.022","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jacr.2025.06.022","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>After FDA clearance of digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) in 2011, many insurers were slow to adopt full coverage without cost sharing. Our institution implemented a $45 out-of-pocket fee for DBT, refunded upon insurance payment. This fee was eliminated in January 2021 after most insurers began covering DBT. We evaluated the effect of out-of-pocket fee removal on DBT versus digital mammography use across patient groups.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We conducted a retrospective analysis of screening mammograms scheduled at a multisite academic institution between March 2018 and August 2022. A difference-in-difference analysis was performed for women with screening mammography both before and after fee removal to assess the effect of fee removal across patient groups.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among 13,284 women (mean age, 61.5 ± 11.2 years), DBT utilization increased from 83.7% (11,123 of 13,284) pre-intervention to 91.5% (12,256 of 13,284) postintervention. Relative to White patients, the rise in DBT utilization was greater by 5.0 percentage points (pp) for Asian patients (95% confidence interval [CI] = 3.7-6.2), 6.2 pp for Black patients (95% CI = 5.0-7.3), and 6.2 pp for Hispanic patients (95% CI = 4.9-7.5). Non-English-speaking patients had a larger increase in DBT usage than English-speaking patients (7.1 pp; 95% CI = 6.1-8.1). Medicaid (6.7 pp; 95% CI = 4.8-8.5) and commercially insured (5.1 pp; 95% CI = 3.8-6.4) patients showed a greater rise in DBT usage than patients with Medicare. Patients from more socio-economically disadvantaged areas had a greater increase in DBT utilization compared with those from less disadvantaged areas (5.2 pp; 95% CI = 4.1-6.8).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Eliminating out-of-pocket cost for DBT improved overall utilization and narrowed disparities. However, persistent inequities suggest additional strategies are needed to ensure equitable access to DBT for all women undergoing screening mammography.</p>","PeriodicalId":73968,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144340761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Charlotte S Taylor, C Austin Wheeler, Richard Duszak
{"title":"Achieving Educational Excellence in an Era of Accelerating Healthcare Consolidation.","authors":"Charlotte S Taylor, C Austin Wheeler, Richard Duszak","doi":"10.1016/j.jacr.2025.06.029","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jacr.2025.06.029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73968,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144340757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ted Giovanis, Elliot K Fishman, Linda C Chu, Steven P Rowe, Charles K Crawford
{"title":"Data, Risk, Adaptation, and Resilience in Modern Health Care.","authors":"Ted Giovanis, Elliot K Fishman, Linda C Chu, Steven P Rowe, Charles K Crawford","doi":"10.1016/j.jacr.2025.06.028","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jacr.2025.06.028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73968,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144340760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nhat-Tuan Tran, Rebekah Anders, Christopher Doyle, Randy C Miles
{"title":"Reply.","authors":"Nhat-Tuan Tran, Rebekah Anders, Christopher Doyle, Randy C Miles","doi":"10.1016/j.jacr.2025.06.020","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jacr.2025.06.020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73968,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144340758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}