Health-care pricing got a little more transparent this week with the launch of Guroo.com, a website that allows health consumers to compare costs for more than 75 services, many of them involving medical imaging.

Did you make a new year’s resolution this year? Have you kept it? You may not be alone.

Private practice radiology groups have been earlier—and broader—adopters of social media than their academic counterparts, according to a study published online in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. 

No one on the business side of radiology is likely to question the key finding from a recent analysis of healthcare spending in 2013: Spending growth decelerated 0.05% in 2013. Spending increased just 3.6%—compared to 4.1% in 2012—to $2.9 trillion, or $9,255 per person.

Women who are informed about the risks of overdiagnosis and overtreatment when it comes to mammography are less likely to undergo a breast cancer screening exam, according to a new study in the journal Lancet.

While conventional wisdom suggests that patients are responsible for urging their doctors to perform unnecessary tests like imaging studies that inflate healthcare costs, a new study has found that patients really aren’t to blame.

Desert Radiologists is a large radiology practice based in Las Vegas, Nevada. The group currently has 65 radiologists providing services in six practice-owned imaging centers as well as 24/7 professional services to 13 hospitals in Nevada, Texas and Oklahoma. These are our top seven tips for avoiding denied claims:

A survey by the Professional Association of Health Care Office Management (PAHCOM) has found that the costs associated with implementing ICD-10 in small physician offices is relatively low compared to some previous estimates. The survey results were published in the Journal of AHIMA (American Health Information Management Association).