A breach at an Alabama hospital that resulted in a two-year jail term for a hospital employee suggests that insider threats to patient data security may be greater challenge than many providers understand.

Certain imaging services continue to be potential targets for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG), according to the office’s recently published Fiscal Year 2015 Work Plan.

U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen (R.Minn.) has re-introduced legislation that would repeal the medical device tax. The 2.3 percent tax has been a prime target for repeal, particularly among Republicans, ever since it went into effect two years ago. 

Already a week into the new year, the healthcare industry is buzzing with energy and focused on the road ahead. 

While the integration of physician groups into hospital operations is expected to achieve more efficiency and quality of care, doing so effectively remains a top challenge and strategic imperative for hospitals and health systems, according to a recent report from the accounting and business consulting firm Dean Dorton Allen Ford.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced that Eighty-nine new accountable care organizations (ACOs) have joined the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) effective January 1. 

One of the topics weighing heavily on the minds of those providers who perused all the new CT imaging equipment on display at RSNA 2014 was the new legislation dedicated to medical imaging as it relates to making provisions to more strictly control CT dosage requirements under NEMA Standard XR-29-2013.

ACR has asked CMS to revise its guidelines for low-dose CT (LDCT) lung cancer screening for the Medicare population.