American College of Radiology
The American College of Radiology (ACR) is a professional medical society representing diagnostic and interventional radiologists, radiation oncologists, nuclear medicine physicians, and medical physicists. It develops imaging practice parameters, technical standards, and accreditation programs, and carries out advocacy, education, and research to advance radiological care.www.acr.org
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Oct 28, 2026
Ed GainesHOST
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Ed GainesHOST
So with your work with the American College of Radiology and with the American Medical Association, what is your sense of how the No Surprises Act is impacting the ACR and AMAs members?
Tilden ChildsGUEST
Well, to the A large extent, it's a very poorly implemented law that has not functioned the way Congress intended.
Tilden ChildsGUEST
It's not Congress's fault.
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Tilden ChildsGUEST
negotiated in market in network rate is basically a convenience for the physicians and for the insurance companies that's just basic financial dealing of benefits both people both sides and we'll take a reduction from what we would otherwise expect to get paid because it provides convenience scale on all that so i think yeah we need the no surprise act enforcement act to really help get the IDR process to work the way it was intended.
Ed GainesHOST
Well, thanks for pointing out your key stat there with 33% of the IDRs are either defaulted by the health plans or they're offering a dollar or less.
Ed GainesHOST
And that was cited in the ACR, ASAP, and ASA statements recently, which was very important.
Ed GainesHOST
And the issue that we probably don't talk enough about, and that is that physicians want to be in network at fair rates.
Jamie VaughnHOST
Kimberly is a fellowship-trained breast imaging radiologist and clinical assistant professor of radiology at NYU Langone Health based in Winter Park, Florida.
Jamie VaughnHOST
Alongside her clinical work, she is involved in advocacy and communication initiatives for the American College of Radiology and the Florida Radiological Society.
Jamie VaughnHOST
She has been an invited lecturer at national meetings such as the Society of Breast Imaging and Radiological Society of North America.
Jamie VaughnHOST
She has focused on all topics related to breast cancer screening and diagnosis and patient legislative advocacy.
Jamie VaughnHOST
So in your work, what changes have you seen in breast imaging and early detection over like the past six years?
Kimberly BeaversGUEST
Yeah, so I graduated from my fellowship in 2020, so it's been about six years and things have changed.
Kimberly BeaversGUEST
The American College of Radiology, the ACR, has updated their high-risk screening guidelines for women who have dense breasts or women who are at an elevated lifetime risk of breast cancer.
Kimberly BeaversGUEST
The ACR also now recommends that all women undergo a risk assessment by the age of 25, which is a new recommendation.
Raina PatelHOST
So risk assessment should be calculated by age 25.
Raina PatelHOST
And what this means is that the American College of Radiology recommends that every woman have a breast cancer risk assessment by age 25.
Raina PatelHOST
That's not a mammogram at age 25.
Raina PatelHOST
It's more of a conversation.
Raina PatelHOST
And they're more likely to be diagnosed before 50, which is exactly the age group the guidelines have been most uncertain type.
Raina PatelHOST
They have about double the risk of triple negative breast cancer, which is a aggressive type of breast cancer, and they're less likely to be diagnosed at stage one.
Raina PatelHOST
That's exactly why the American College of Radiology specifically calls out black women to get their risk assessment by age 25.
Raina PatelHOST
So just to wrap everything up for today's episode, these are a few of the key points.
Adrian MillerGUEST
The patient continues with the recommended screening schedule.
Adrian MillerGUEST
So the American College of Radiology, which is the institute that we follow, recommends a baseline mammogram between the ages of 35 and 40 and an annual screening mammography from 40 until you are healthy enough that if you find something, if we see something on the mammogram, you're going to act.
Adrian MillerGUEST
on it.
Adrian MillerGUEST
So there's no definitive cutoff age.
Kathy BergstromGUEST
While much of the criticism has focused on health care providers, a recent analysis sent to Congress by three physician groups contends that insurer practices have played a role in increased IDR case volume.
Kathy BergstromGUEST
In September 2026, the American Society of Anesthesiologists, American College of Emergency Physicians, and the American College of Radiology cited narrow networks, low QPAs, and low initial payments as factors in the out-of-network disputes.
Kathy BergstromGUEST
The groups also maintained that insurers have failed to participate in the process or submit unreasonably low offers.
Kathy BergstromGUEST
In May 2026, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury and the Office of Personnel Management finalized updated standards for the IDR process in an effort to improve the process.
Jon KanevskyGUEST
The important thing with fat transfer is that in the short period, in the first three to six months after fat transfer, it can obscure mammogram results.
Jon KanevskyGUEST
However, the American College of Radiology recently put out a study where they showed that the findings are distinct, meaning that they can easily track who's had fat transfer and differentiate that from cancer.
Jon KanevskyGUEST
So long-term, it doesn't change the ability to screen or monitor for cancer.
Mary PardeeGUEST
That's actually my follow-up question where breast density we're going to talk about I think on one of our episodes.
Sarah YeeGUEST
exactly that's a good question so right now they are advocating, well I said they, there are a lot of, so there is a United States Identity Task Force, there is American Academy of Family Practice, there's so many, the sad part is they are singing to different tunes.
Sarah YeeGUEST
One organization will say every two years at age 40, one would say American Academy of Radiology would say every year or American Academy of Cancer Society would say every year.
Sarah YeeGUEST
But I would say at age 40, you should start.
Sarah YeeGUEST
And then if there is a high risk, meaning your risk factor is really high, then they are advocating at age 35.
Lucy LaneGUEST
There's many factors that go into risk.
Lucy LaneGUEST
There are different tools, basically a formal risk assessment, and the American College of Radiology actually recommends that by the age of 25.
Lucy LaneGUEST
And in general, things that sort of increase a woman's risk, one thing is actually something we only see when we do our first mammogram, which is breast density.
Lucy LaneGUEST
There are four different categories of breast density, okay? And the density, the breast is made up of something called fibroglandular tissue.
Philip RaoHOST
And that is different than the genetic assessment, though they work
Lucy LaneGUEST
together.
Lucy LaneGUEST
Everything that we're using for our recommendations with Society of Breast Imaging, the American College of Radiology, saying start at 40, we don't have really an upper limit, and we recommend annual screening mammography because that saves the most lives.
Lucy LaneGUEST
For your risk assessment, you want to have that by 25 because it changes what you're going to do for your screening.
Karen LitzyHOST
Now, I know another thing that certainly confuses women around mammography is when do we get it? So we've got the task force says every other year starting at 40.
Karen LitzyHOST
The American College of Radiology and the Society of Breast Imaging says every year starting at 40.
Karen LitzyHOST
Risk assessment by 25.
Karen LitzyHOST
Mammalink lets women 35 and up book a screening.
Wendi ChapmanGUEST
To start getting a baseline between the ages of 35 and 40, 40 and up every year until the end of time.
Wendi ChapmanGUEST
And that's that to how long, you know, we we go by the American College of Radiology and we don't put a timeline in.
Wendi ChapmanGUEST
stopping mammograms women that are over 70 can be more susceptible but there's also if you have someone in your family you have family history of breast cancer and say your mother or your grandmother got diagnosed at say 45 years old well we recommend you get screened 10 years prior to that so but a mammogram is once a year
Kiran ChawlaHOST
yes i want to ask you how fast can breast cancer come on so say october 1st you just did your mammogram everything comes back clear and then two months later you're like oh
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