The failure of the Congressional supercommittee to reach a compromise on spending cuts has positive and negative implications for the radiology sector and the health care community in general.

In its first such move under its new powers to review health insurance increases that exceed 10%, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) yesterday asked Everence Insurance to reduce its proposed premium increases to 5,000 patients in Pennsylvania.

Radimetrics, a Toronto, Canada-based provider of radiation dose monitoring and management software, and Montage, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based provider of software for radiology data mining and performance measurement, have formed a technology partnership aimed at offering tools that combine radiation dose monitoring capabilities with

The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) today released the standards and guidelines that form the basis of its ACO accreditation program.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has instituted a 90-day grace period for compliance with version 5010 of the HIPAA X12 standard. While January 1, 2012 remains the “official compliance date", the agency reported it will not “initiate enforcement action” on that compliance before March 31, 2012.

Premier Imaging Ventures of Columbus, Ohio has spun off several of its support entities, creating a new venture to be known as Lucid Radiology Solutions.

Democrats’ unwillingness to accept major Medicare cuts will rank among top factors meriting blame if President Obama’s supercommittee fails to meet its November 23 deadline to cut the federal deficit, Republican supercommittee co-chairman Jeb Hensarling of Texas said Wednesday in a press briefing Wednesday.

A new report released by the Commonwealth Fund pegs the cost of health insurance as outpacing income growth in all 50 states.