State rules to regulate the health care market often pose a challenge to medical imaging facilities seeking to open a new location or expand their services. However, North Star Radiology in Fairbanks, Alaska, is in the unique situation of seeing their existing business being examined by the state’s Department of Health and Social Services.

A change in reimbursement rules designed to cut down on overuse of observations stays for Medicare patients has pushed hospital admission rates down to the lowest number seen in a decade on a monthly survey conducted by Citi Research

Both organizations issued statements underlining their support for clinical decision support in advanced imaging following a op-ed by American Enterprise Institute fellow Scott Gottleib, MD.

The latest version of the American College of Radiology's guidelines updated 29 appropriateness criteria topics and added 12 new criteria

Radiology and radiation therapy services provider Alliance HealthCare Services, Inc, has sold its subsidiary Radiology 24|7, LLC, to teleradiology group ONRAD Inc. Radiology 24|7 generates approximately $15 million of revenue each year

The Radiological Society of North America's annual conference continues to be the place to take the pulse of the industry, and these were the top trends spotted by our reporting team

The consolidation trend gathered steam in the radiology private-practice sector in 2013, a year in which the average size of the nation’s largest private practices increased from 46 FTE radiologist in 2012 to 50

The Radiological Society of North American announced that Richard L. Baron, M.D., FACR, is its new Board chairman and N. Reed Dunnick, M.D., is its new president