Intense pressure to move from fee-for-service to value-based care and reimbursement driving commercial payer, hospital system and group practice consolidations are forcing independent radiology practices of all sizes to reassess, and where required, increase their relevance to the systems they serve in order to remain successfully independent.

The World Molecular Imaging Society (WMIS) announced today that its president-elect for 2017 will be Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, MD, chair of the radiology department at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced this week that it has increased the fee for processing medical device export certificates that have already been requested in the past. 

It was Outliers author Malcolm Gladwell who popularized the concept that it takes roughly 10,000 hours to achieve mastery in a field. Success is about practice, diligence and time. But when it comes to transformation and change in business, healthcare and life, it isn’t time but attitude that matters most.

The pace of consolidation in the medical imaging industry, which could be accurately described as feverish from 2010 to 2013, has cooled.

A simple number is buried in the esoteric byways of the U.S. healthcare  reimbursement system

Healthcare in the United States is in need of a serious makeover, according to two experienced healthcare physician executives. If physicians aren’t properly motivated, the required changes will never come.

Flash back to the end of 2008 and the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005. At 14-site Scottsdale Medical Imaging (SMIL) in Arizona, word comes down from the board of directors to senior management: Our shareholders are concerned. We’ve got to do something to stem the financial bleeding.