A heart CT scan uses X-rays to create an image of the heart and blood vessels. Healthcare professionals may also refer to it as cardiac CT angiography. A CT scan is a noninvasive imaging procedure.

As technology offers more tools to help diagnose heart disease, you may need to adjust your approach. Here’s the latest on one of those new tools. One of the greatest challenges facing primary-care ...

The International Contrast Ultrasound Society (ICUS) today announced a handy new chart that may be used to guide coding and payment for contrast enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) for cardiac and non-cardiac ...

Photon-counting detector CT reduces the amount of contrast needed for CT angiography (CTA) while maintaining image quality, according to a new study published in Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging. The ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has rendered its final rule regarding 2020 reimbursement rates associated with cardiac computed tomography performed in hospitals, and imagers are ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. Cardiac CT may be the ideal imaging technique during the ...

Proposed changes to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) billing codes associated with cardiac computed tomography for 2020 would drop reimbursement rates by 10-30% for three main CT ...