RadNet, one of the country's largest operators of outpatient imaging centers, announced Dec. 18 a new joint venture with MemorialCare Health System, a California-based nonprofit health system.

Companies to collaborate on next-generation enterprise imaging solutions.

A research group looking to discover brain changes associated with aging and psychosis at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania received two grants from the National Institutes on Aging, National Institute of Mental Health and general office of the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) equaling $8.5 million.

Texas-based Baylor College of Medicine and California-based Radiology Partners, a physician-operated radiology practice, are partnering to provide services to Baylor’s academic hospital, Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center, Catholic Health Initiatives network hospitals and other community hospitals in the Greater Houston area and Southeast Texas.

It’s already Spring 2017, so if you're a clinician with a sizeable Medicare patient caseload, you're almost halfway through the first year in which you need to capture performance data to earn potentially big bonus dollars—or avoid increasingly painful deductions—starting in 2019. And if your specialty is radiology, be it diagnostic or interventional, you have some participation options unavailable to many other physicians. 

Medicalis recently announced that Chesterfield, Missouri-based Mercy has completed its enterprise-wide deployment of its Medicalis Workflow Solution. 

Radiologists can benefit from participating in episodic payment models—even those that aren’t radiology-focused. Capitalizing on opportunities to provide imaging during care episodes can push radiologists over the threshold for the positive payment adjustments that come with meeting the criteria for Advanced Alternative Payment Model (APM) participation.

Envision Healthcare Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Imaging Advantage, in a transaction that will expand Envision’s presence in radiology physician services across the nation.