Healthcare providers that successfully transition to the “New Health Economy” will collect more of their patients’ bills. They will complete the collections more quickly, too, enabling them to better manage cash flow and strip administrative costs to the bone.

Australian digital imaging company Capitol Health Limited announced the acquisitions of Eastern Radiology Services and Sydney Radiology this week.

Have you noticed a sharp uptick in merger and acquisition activity in radiology?

Researchers have interrogated the DRG database to come up with initial targets for help with negotiating bundled payments.

Is flat-rate pricing the wave of the future for outpatient radiology? One large practice in the Midwest is going to find out.

Washington, DC (April 21, 2015) — The American College of Radiology (ACR) strongly supports the Diagnostic Imaging Services Access Protection Act (S. 1020), recently introduced by Senators David Vitter (R-LA) and Ben Cardin (D-MD) to repeal the 25 percent Multiple Procedure Payment Reduction (MPPR). 

With the SGR in the rear-view mirror, organized medicine weighed in on the historic overhaul of the Medicare physician payment system.

America’s hospitals are open for business around the clock, ready to treat victims of major accidents, disasters, epidemics and attacks. But this readiness—hospitals’ “standby role”—is not explicitly funded.