RadNet, one of the country’s largest operators of outpatient imaging centers, has announced that it acquired Diagnostic Imaging Group (DIG) for approximately $56.7 million and 1.5 million shares of RadNet stock. 

General Electric released its third-quarter earnings last week, and numbers show that GE Healthcare’s profit and revenue are both down compared to 2014. 

Carestream Health has a new three-year purchasing contract with the healthcare improvement company Premier.

The sessions at the AHRA 2015 Virtual Fall Conference may be prerecorded, but the festivities began on Oct. 16 with a live keynote presentation from Richard Duszak, MD, chief medical officer of the American College of Radiology’s Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute.

Surveying a room full of practice management executives at the Radiology Business Management Association’s Spring Summit in Las Vegas, Nev., William Moore III, then CEO of Desert Radiologists, said: “Many of you in the audience would ask the question, ‘Why in the world would a radiology practice want to implement capitation, or take at-risk patients?’”

Under the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), radiologists will receive a composite performance score (0–100) based on a defined performance period. CMS will then use that score to adjust payments beginning in 2019.

Intention deserves more attention in modern radiology, according to a recent commentary published in Academic Radiology, because it’s intent that separates living, breathing radiologists from decision-making machines. 

The nation's 100 largest private radiology practices bulk up, adding radiologists but shedding employees and imaging center assets as they grow