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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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Obama, Lawmakers Laud Federal Debt Reduction Strategy

President Obama and lawmakers in both parties are openly expressing their support of a new strategy for reducing the federal debt unveiled Tuesday, deeming the emerging plan to save $3.7 trillion over the next decade a viable means of helping to break a political impasse over the debt limit and avert a U.S. default.

Combination of Short-Term ADT, Radiation Therapy Benefits Early-Stage Prostate Cancer Patients

Short-term hormone therapy (androgen deprivation therapy, or ADT) administered in combination with radiation therapy for men with early-stage prostate cancer increases their chance of living longer and not dying from the disease, compared with that of those who receive the same radiation therapy alone, according to a Radiation Therapy Oncology

CMS Creates New Link For Comments on Proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

The Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has created a new link to be used by the public for commenting on the 2012 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule officially published in the Federal Register Tuesday. The link, which is found on the Web site www.regulations.gov, replaces a link designed for the same purpose and sent to

Health Care M&A On Track to Shatter Records

Get ready for a record-breaking year on the health care mergers and acquisitions (M&A) front.

ACR, Society of Breast Imaging Support ACOG Mammography Guidelines

The American College of Radiology (ACR) and the Society of Breast Imaging yesterday announced that they “applaud and support” updated American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ (ACOG) recommendations that women begin to receive annual mammograms at age 40. The updated ACOG recommendations, published in the August 2011 issue of Obstetrics

Senators to Obama: No More Imaging Cuts

A bipartisan group of senators, among them John Kerry (D-MA), Herb Kohl (D-WI). and Lamar Alexander (R-TN), yesterday sent a letter to the Obama Administration protesting the inclusion of any diagnostic imaging cuts in legislation to raise the debt ceiling. The American College of Radiology (ACR) and the ACR-co-founded Access to Medical Imaging

ACR Requests Improvements to Lung Cancer Mortality Reduction Act

The American College of Radiology (ACR) has formally asked for improvements to the Lung Cancer Mortality Reduction Act (H.R. 1394/S. 752), which calls for the development of a comprehensive government strategy to spark a 50% decrease in lung cancer mortality by 2020 and initiate a demonstration project that would permit lung cancer patient

Physicians Eager to Try Out ACOs, Executive Says

Most physicians recognize that the U.S. health care system is inefficient and must change. As such, they are eager to give accountable care organizations (ACOs) a try.

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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

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.