Providers utilize business intelligence to monitor referral patterns and collaborate with clinicians who order their services. Such analytics tools have also been deployed in the specialty to improve productivity, track patient satisfaction and bolster quality.
Over 97% of all counties in the U.S. see high or very high levels of consolidation in Medicare Advantage markets, with UnitedHealthcare and Humana owning the most plans nationwide.
Former Steward Health Care CEO Ralph de la Torre, MD, and other executives are accused in a $1.4 billion legal filing of paying themselves hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses, despite the health system being insolvent.
In a new report, the New York Times details multiple incidents of the insurance giant using legal threats to silence social media users and news outlets, citing the murder of Brian Thompson and the threat of rising violence as the basis for its claims.
Massachusetts and Hawaii are the latest states to have introduced bills in their respective legislatures to mandate informing mammography patients about breast density
Philips Healthcare has made an additional donation of nearly $9,000 to help the ASRT Foundation support members who volunteer in under-served communities and provide quality medical imaging and radiation therapy services for populations in need
Got an idea for how to accomplish the enormous job of speeding the nation-wide adoption of electronic health records that actually can share data (interoperability) without spending any extra money? Health and Human Services (HHS) is all ears
Although Medicare spending is shielded from the largest across-the-board mandated cuts known as the the sequester, the cuts will still total $11.1 billion for fiscal 2013
The founders of the Atlanta-based medical billing and practice management company credit MMP’s core value of partnership with clients as the underpinning for the company’s two decades of growth
The NEJM research and findings by the journal Cancer that 12,000 lives alone might be saved using more conservative criteria supports advocates' arguments for expanding testing criteria and payor coverage
Last September, Merge Healthcare asked an investment banking firm to solicit offers for the company, but its CEO said last week that it is no longer looking for a buyer
Toronto-based RamSoft's PowerServer Cloud Canada will offer imaging centers and hospitals a secure PIPEDA-compliant cloud-based RIS/PACS that it says will be more affordable because it will not require a major IT investment in onsite servers and can be launched in a matter of weeks