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California Department of Health Launches EHR Incentive Program

California's Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) today announced the launch of the first phase of its Medi-Cal Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program. Part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the program will deliver to eligible hospitals and health care professionals as much as $1.4 billion in federal incentive payments

FDA Clears Wide-Bore System

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted clearance to GE Healthcare for its Discovery MR750w wide-bore 3-tesla system with the GEM Suite (geometry embracing method) of coils.

MedPAC Approves Proposal to Repeal SGR

In what could be the first step toward breaking a pattern of annual short-term fixes to the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula that governs Medicare payments, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) today voted to approve a proposal to repeal it.

Consumers Confident About Health Care Services, But Questions Persist

Consumers’ confidence in their ability to access and pay for health care services rose slightly last month, but concerns remain, according to the Thomson Reuters Consumer Healthcare Sentiment Index.

Imaging Costs Not A Major Component of Wasted Health Care Expenditures

Unnecessary tests and treatments cost the U.S. health care system $6.7 billion in 2009, but expenditures for unnecessary imaging dwarfed those for other procedures, according to a research letter published in the October 1 edition of Archives of Internal Medicine.

Supercommittee Stalemate Might Be Best for Radiology

Cindy Moran, a former Republican Senate staffer who now lobbies for the American College of Radiology (ACR), doesn't mince words when it comes to the prospect of the Congressional supercommittee recommending using health care cuts to reduce the nation's budget deficit by at least $1.2 trillion in the next 10 years.

Sutter's California Pacific Medical Center Acquires Fusion Diagnostic Group

San Francisco outpatient diagnostic imaging provider Fusion Diagnostic Group LLC has been purchased by the California Pacific Medical Center, part of the not-for-profit Northern California healthcare network Sutter Health.

Specialty Physicians May Benefit From Rising Health Care Costs, Study Says

Rising health care costs and health care reform—particularly the creation of health insurance exchanges (HIEs)--may actually benefit, rather than hurt, 10 health care sub-segments.

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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.

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Global shortage of nuclear imaging isotopes may be over

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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.