Washington, D.C. – The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA), a division of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA), today welcomed Kevin J. Cosgriff as NEMA’s next president and chief executive officer. 

INDIANAPOLIS, IN – (July 14, 2014) – Zotec Partners, LLC (Zotec), a leading provider of billing and practice management services to hospital-based physicians, is pleased to announce that it has hired esteemed industry veteran Mark Scruggs, as a partner of corporate strategy.

ACA has accelerated the rate of change in healthcare and payors are under the gun to make the transition from an industry in which the customer is a corporation to one in which consumers call the shots. Many current market leaders could be unseated, predicts a June report from McKinsey & Company.

Deborah DiSanzo, CEO of Philips Healthcare, has left the company in advance of quarterly results anticipated to fall short of expectations. Philips’ top executive Frans Van Houten, CEO, will manage the group, with healthcare business units reporting directly to him.

With so much healthcare news coming out of the Capitol, it’s obvious that healthcare remains a priority for the country’s leadership. The office of Health and Human Services (HHS) is preparing for enrollment in year two of the federal health insurance exchange and announced that it will launch auto-enrollment to give existing consumers a simple way to remain in the same plan next year, unless they want to shop for another plan and choose to make changes. This announcement comes amidst reports of coverage gaps for those currently enrolled in some state plans, as well as lingering, unresolved issues stemming from the original enrollment launch debacle last fall.

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The nation’s big-tent physician association, the American Medical Association, took a number of actions this week at its annual meeting in Chicago, including a vote by the House of Delegates to recommend that Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance cover low-dose CT lung-cancer screening for high-risk patients.