Week in Review: CMS releases 2025 MPFS | Imaging societies react to MPFS, HOPPS rules | CT pioneer remembered

Dear AuntMinnie Member,

What was our most popular article this week? Coverage of the release of the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) final rule, which includes colorectal cancer screening. Click here for the details.

Our second most-read story gathered imaging societies' responses to the MPFS and the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (HOPPS) -- which were mixed, to say the least.

AuntMinnie members showed strong interest in our third story of the week, a tribute to CT pioneer Willi Kalender, MD, who died October 21.

Fourth on the list was an article on study findings about the use of SPECT/CT to predict treatment response in Pluvicto patients. And our fifth most popular story covered an American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) survey that found increases in nuclear medicine technologist salaries.

We also featured two x-ray studies, one that described how chest x-ray AI '"shines'" in real-world settings and another on how dark-field x-ray can track bone changes related to osteoporosis. And speaking of x-ray, this week we posted Episode 9 of our podcast series Keeping Up With the Radiologists, during which Saurabh [Harry] Jha, MD, and colleague Mitchell Schnall, MD, PhD, discussed what's next for chest radiography.

Finally, in late October, Spain was hit by torrential rains that led to extreme flooding in its Valencia region. Check out our coverage of how radiologists in the area responded.

Take a look at the full list of our top stories of the week:

1. CMS' MPFS 2025 final rule includes colorectal cancer screening
2. Imaging societies' reactions mixed on finalized MPFS, HOPPS rule
3. Tributes pour in for CT pioneer Willi Kalender
4. SPECT/CT predicts treatment response in Pluvicto patients
5. ASRT: Nuclear medicine technologist salaries show greatest gains
6. Chest x-ray AI shines in ‘real-world’ setting in Cleveland
7. Dark-field x-ray detects bone changes related to osteoporosis
8. SDMS releases updated diagnostic medical sonography code of ethics
9. PCCT shows promise for generating opportunistic bone density data
10. Ultrasound nonmass breast lesion features may signal malignancy
11. Podcast: What's next for chest radiographs?
12. Radiology responds to devastating floods in Spain
13. Could cranial ultrasound sub for brain MRI in imaging infants?
14. Thermal ablation effective long term in patients with thyroid cancer

Kate Madden Yee
Senior Editor
AuntMinnie.com