Despite increasing concerns about ionizing medical radiation and medical imaging, as well as numerous reports in the media over the last several years on the subject, a study in the journal Radiology has found that benefit/risk discussions about ionizing radiation from imaging are few and far between and seldom initiated by clinicians.

Richard Vance, MD, will succeed Tom Skelton as CEO of Foundation Radiology, the Pittsburgh, Pa-based radiology services company.

Strategic Radiology® (SR) announced today that Radiologic Medical Services (RMS) of Iowa City, IA has joined forces with the SR® network of progressive, independent radiology groups geographically dispersed throughout the US.

As part of a broader management and exclusive services agreement, 37-member Asheville Radiology Associates practice sold its interests in two joint-ventured imaging centers to Mission Health, Asheville, NC.

Adults who are at low risk for coronary heart disease shouldn’t undergo screening with resting or stress electrocardiography, stress echocardiography, or stress myocardial perfusion imaging, according to an article published in the Annals of Internal Medicine by the American College of Physicians (ACP). 

Health care prices in January 2015 were just 1.2% higher than January 2014—much lower than the December 2014 year-over-year change of 1.8%, according to a report from Altarum Institute’s Center for Sustainable Health Spending. 

Leaders in the House and Senate Thursday introduced legislation that would repeal Medicare’s Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula and avoid a 21.2% reimbursement reduced scheduled for April 1.

Physician practices are increasingly affiliating or merging with other practices or aligning or getting acquired by hospitals in order to better support the investments needed to successfully implement alternative payment models, according to a new RAND report released Thursday.