Business Intelligence

Providers utilize business intelligence to monitor referral patterns and collaborate with clinicians who order their services. Such analytics tools have also been deployed in the specialty to improve productivity, track patient satisfaction and bolster quality.

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Senate Offers Two Month Doc Fix, Boehner Says No

The US Senate approved legislation on Friday that averts Medicare reimbursement cuts for just two months rather than the two year “doc fix” contained in the version passed by the House last week.

Blue Cross Honors WellPoint Transparency Program

The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association recognized a WellPoint subsidiary recently that helps steer consumer choices to less expensive diagnostic imaging centers.

RBMA Joins ACR’s Leadership Institute

The American College of Radiology’s newly created Leadership Institute added its first affiliate organization this week with the Radiology Business Management Association.

Angiography Procedures Stall in 2010

A survey of angiography labs in the U.S. shows the growth rate for interventional procedures rose just 1 percent over each of the past two years.

RadNet Adds RADAR Communication Tool to Outpatient Centers

RadNet, one of the largest groups of outpatient imaging centers in the U.S., announced this week that it has expanded its technology with RADAR, a communication protocol.

House Passes Doc-Fix, Dems Say It Will Be Dead On Arrival in Senate

House Republicans successfully passed legislation on Tuesday that postpones a 27 percent cut to Medicare physician reimbursements slated for Jan. 1, and also extends the $1,000 payroll tax break scheduled to expire this year.

14 Arrested in Imaging Kickback Scheme

Thirteen doctors and a nurse practitioner were arrested in New Jersey this week for accepting kickback payments for referring patients to a certain diagnostic imaging facility.

ACR Joins National Effort to "Choose Wisely"

The American College of Radiology announced this week that it has joined with eight other medical specialty societies in a national campaign to promote wise choices by physicians and patients.

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Health Imaging
Nearly $800,000 settlement offered to family of man who died during MRI exam

The patient, who was being cared for in the ICU, was not accompanied or monitored by nursing staff during his exam, despite being sedated.

Cardiovascular Business
Global shortage of nuclear imaging isotopes may be over

The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

Cardiovascular Business
‘A huge win’: CMS significantly increases Medicare payments for cardiac CT

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.