Merge Healthcare Inc. has commenced a cash tender offer for any and all of its $252 million outstanding aggregate principal amount of 11.75% Senior Secured Notes due 2015

Starting on January 1, 2014, all mammography providers in Hawaii must inform women with dense breast tissue about their breast density status at the time they deliver mammography results.

CMS’ Proposed Decision Memo for Positron Emission Tomography (FDG) for Solid Tumors crept under the radar last month, but strong reactions from industry associations are finally surfacing.

The Wall Street Journal took a break from writing about all that is wrong with the economics of health care delivery to highlight something that is right — the efforts of radiologists to reduce duplicate scans through image sharing and make it easier for patients to get second opinions.

The efforts of organizations like the Medical Imaging Technology Alliance (MITA) to end the medical device tax that went into effect this year drew the sharp rebuke of the New York Times' editorial board.

As Massachusetts joins the ranks of states weighing legislation requiring mammography patients to be informed if they have dense breast tissue, the state also is streamlining the process by requiring imaging facilities—not physicians—to communicate information about breast density to patients at the completion of a mammogram.

Begging the question of where alignment ends and payola begins, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, Utah, has agreed to pay the government $25.5 million to settle charges that it paid referral-based bonuses to physicians, as well as other forms of compensation illegal under the Stark laws.

The attorney general of Kansas has reached an agreement with Prime Healthcare Services Inc. to allow it to acquire two Catholic charity hospitals — the 400-bed Providence Medical Center in Kansas City, and the 80-bed St. John Hospital in Leavenworth.