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Texas Radiological Society (TRS)

Annual Meeting: March 2-4, 2012
Westin Riverwalk Hotel
San Antonio, Texas
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Congratulations to 2012 TRS Gold Medalist: Robert W. Parkey, MD, FACR will receive the TRS Gold medal at the TRS' 99th Annual Scientific Meeting to be held in San Antonio, March 2-4, 2012. Congratulations Dr. Parkey!
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Congratulation to the 2012 Texas Fellows!

13 Texas radiologists will receive their ACR fellowship in April, 2012 at the ACR Annual Meeting! We are proud of our Texas FACRs.

Texas H.B. 2102 - Henda’s Law: Texas H.B. 2102 known as Henda's Law became effective September 1, 2011, but mammography facilities are not required to comply with the requirements of this law until January 1, 2012. The law requires mammography providers to notify their patients with dense breast tissue that their dense breasts could hide abnormalities, and that they may benefit from supplemental screening tests if they have other risk factors for breast cancer. Read more details, or check out our online forum for more discussions on this topic.
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Mark your calendars for a very special Centennial Meeting in 2013!

April 5-7, 2013

Omni Houston Hotel by the Galleria

TRS wins in ACR's Chapter Recognition Program!: TRS wins the Overall Excellence Award from the ACR for the fourth consecutive year in a row!
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November 29, 2011
New RTOG Phase II Study to Help Determine Best Treatment Strategies for Patients with Low-Risk, Low-Grade Glioma Brain Tumors: The RTOG 0925 clinical trial seeks to determine if patients' neurocognitive changes caused by tumor progression can help guide treatment decisions.

November 29, 2011
ACR Announces Debut of New AIRP Syllabus App: The American Institute for Radiologic Pathology (AIRP), a program of the American College of Radiology, unveiled its new iPad® edition of the 2011 AIRP Radiologic Pathology Correlation Course Syllabus.

November 22, 2011
Supercommittee Fails to Reach a Legislative Agreement; SGR Deadline Looms: Despite several public hearings and numerous internal deliberations, the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction announced on November 21 that it was unable to bridge deep partisan divides and develop a legislative package to address the federal debt.

November 22, 2011
Imaging Stakeholders Can Stop By The ACR Booth To Tell their Member Of Congress To Support The Diagnostic Imaging Services Protection Act: In the ACR Booth (#4623) at the RSNA meeting in Chicago, The College will offer dedicated iPads where imaging stakeholders can tell their Member of Congress to cosponsor H.R. 3269, The Diagnostic Imaging Services Protection Act.

November 21, 2011
Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Guidelines for Breast Cancer Screening Ignore Best Evidence and Would Cost Thousands of Lives Each Year: New breast cancer screening guidelines by the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health (CTFOPH), which recommend against annual screening of women ages 40-49 and extending time between screens for older women, ignore results of landmark randomized control trials which show that regular screening significantly reduces breast cancer deaths in these women.

November 15, 2011
Image Gently® and SNM "Go With the Guidelines" Campaign to Help "Child-Size" Pediatric Radiopharmaceutical Dose: The Image Gently® campaign and the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) have launched the "Go With the Guidelines" campaign to encourage community hospitals, academic hospitals and clinics to observe new North American Guidelines for Nuclear Medicine Radiopharmaceutical Dose in children.

November 9, 2011
Important CMS/MIPPA accreditation news: If the CMS accreditation mandate applies to you, and you have applied for ACR accreditation of advanced diagnostic imaging services (MRI, CT, nuclear medicine and PET exams), it is critical that you provide the NPI number your site registered on NPPES for their business name.

November 7, 2011
ACR Unveils RLI Core Areas of Study: The Board of Directors of the American College of Radiology's Radiology Leadership Institute™ (RLI) recently laid the foundation for radiology's first professional development and leadership academy by establishing the RLI Common Body of Knowledge™ (CBK).

November 3, 2011
Imaging Cuts in 2012 Medicare Final Rule Unfounded and Potentially Dangerous: While the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services -- in response to American College of Radiology data and a furious response from the imaging community -- revised the multiple procedure payment reduction for interpretation of imaging from 50 percent to 25 percent, the 25 percent cut is still unfounded and potentially dangerous. The unanticipated Final Rule expansion of this reduction to include multiple providers within the same group practice violates the spirit of the rulemaking process and indicates that CMS fundamentally misunderstands the practice of medicine.