After kicking the can down the road on the sustainable growth rate (SGR) for more than a decade, health policymakers appear to be reaching consensus on some of the elements needed in a strategy for the reform of physician payment, health economist Gail R. Wilensky, PhD, writes in Health Affairs. 

When CMS asked the ACR® to create bundled codes for breast biopsy, the writing was on the wall

A new study suggests that the cost of implementing the ICD-10 code set could be as much as three times previously estimated for physician practices, prompting the AMA to call for a two-year grace period for physicians.

Southwest Diagnostic Imaging (SDI) leap-frogged into the upper ranks of the nation’s largest practices this week by merging with East Valley Diagnostic Imaging in Mesa, Arizona, folding 100 radiologists into a mega-practice that covers the entire Phoenix metropolitan area.

As anyone who has been around medical imaging for any amount of time can tell you, the latest headwind is the same as it’s seemingly always been: reimbursement cuts.

Join us for a presentation by the American College of Radiology's Michael Peters on what radiologists need to know to attest to Stages 1 and 2 of the federal Meaningful Use Program, followed by a Q & A session.

Marked by plenty of merger/acquisition activity, 2013 was a more tumultuous year in the imaging industry than anticipated, according to Todd Sorensen, CVA, a partner with health-care valuation and advisory company VMG Health.

As citizens and the media debate the cost and growing pains associated with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), Cuckler et al¹ (at the CMS Office of the Actuary) predict that aggregate health-care spending will grow at an average annual rate of 5.8% from 2012 to 2022, outpacing the projected growth rate of the US gross domestic product (GDP) by 1%. In 2022, nearly one-fifth of the GDP (19.9%) will be spent on health care, they estimate.