The month we’ve all been counting down to has finally arrived. It’s January 2014, and the individual mandate of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is—at long last, and after many legal battles—in effect.

In what could be the first step in gaining a favorable recommendation for low-dose CT colonography from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), the organization has included the test in its draft research plan on colorectal screening

Two of New Jersey’s oldest imaging center operators, South Jersey Radiology Associates and Booth Radiology have merged forming a 13-location, 60 radiologist practice

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) have published final rules to renew and revise the 2006 EHR exception and safe harbor from self-referral/anti-kickback requirements

The overall drop in health care employment recorded by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics may reflect efficiencies in care

A new report from Premier, Inc, indicates that hospital leadership is moving more slowly than previously signaled when it comes to active ACO participation. 

Holders of Health Management Associates, Inc., (HMA) stock have overwhelmingly approved a $7.5 billion deal for HMA to be acquired by rival Community Health Systems, Inc., (CHS) creating the nation’s largest publicly-traded hospital company

Dean Norman Janes, the now former CEO of Imaging3, leaves the Burbank, Calif.-based developer of the Dominion Volumetric Imaging Scanner amid allegations that the intentionally mislead investors in the company about the true reasons the Dominion scanner failed three times to get U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) 501k clearance