Challenges and opportunities created by the Affordable Care Act are prompting two-thirds of companies to consider altering their pre-65 retiree health strategies over the next few years, according to a new Aon Hewitt survey.

With all the daily obstacles facing physicians these days, getting paid for the services they provide to keep patients healthy should be easy. Unfortunately, it isn't always.

Speech recognition software is at the top of the wish list, if not in the active purchasing plans, for 272 healthcare providers shopping for or in the process of buying imaging IT products in eight countries of northern Europe. 

Retained surgical items – tools and implements left inside a patient’s body after a procedure – put patients in danger and can cost providers a fortune in legal fees and non-reimbursed healthcare costs. Positive control radiographs can help radiologists locate these items before it’s too late, according to a study by Kristin Kelly Porter, MD, and colleagues in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a proposed rule that would update Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) managed-care regulations for the first time in over a decade.

The ACR has launched the Lung Cancer Screening Education Program, an online education resource that trains radiologists on how to implement a “safe and effective" lung cancer screening program.

Gary W. Mlady, MD, is the new chair of the department of radiology at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, the school has announced.

The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) is proposing an alternative payment model under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, and it includes a bundled option that would set a target spending level for imaging services.