Business Intelligence

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.

Major private payer encouraging employees to leave willingly
The largest Medicaid-specialized managed care organization in the U.S. is offering buyout packages to most of its 60,000 or so staff workers.
As Americans tuck into supplements like their health depends on it, specialized products are displacing multivitamins
Some of today’s most popular products promise better immune, adaptogenic, anti-inflammatory, gut, skin or joint health—or combinations of two or more of the above.
Express Scripts sues Tennessee over PBM law that would close specialty pharmacy
The company called the state’s regulation of pharmacy benefit managers “shortsighted,” as it would force the closure of Accredo, a specialty drug dispensary that supplies drugs it says aren’t available anywhere else in the state.
FTC settles lawsuit with Optum Rx, ending its campaign against the ‘big three’ PBMs
The agency had been suing the three largest pharmacy benefit managers over their alleged control of insulin prices. It reached agreements with CVS’ Caremark and Cigna’s Express Scripts earlier this year.
Nvidia partners with clinical note-taking company to improve suite of AI models
The collaboration between the chipmaker and Abridge, a developer of generative AI for healthcare, will involve data-sharing to improve Nvidia’s general-purpose models, which in turn will be used to make Abridge’s clinical offerings more efficient.

Bill to Create Alternate RVU Advisory Group Problematic says RUC Member

H.R. 2545, a bill to create an “independent” panel to advise on the relative value of physician services, repeats old and invalid criticisms of the Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC) said Geraldine B. McGinty, MD, chair of the ACR’s Commission on Economics and a member of the RUC

Additional Evidence Shows Medical Imaging Utilization Rates Declining

The Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute was set up in part to challenge wrong assumptions about the role of imaging in the rise in health spending, and the latest study from the Institute does just that

AHRQ Lists Strategic Radiology Patient Safety Organization

The AHRQ approval of the patient safety organization established by the Palmeto, Fla.-based network of radiology practices allows Strategic Radiology to move forward with the sharing of radiology safety and quality best practices

MemorialCare Medical Foundation Forms Joint Venture to Operate 5 Southern California Imaging Centers

MemorialCare Medical Foundation, the physician group division of MemorialCare Health System in Southern California, has entered into a joint venture partnership with SimonMed, an imaging company, to operate five imaging centers in the counties of Los Angeles and Orange

Republican Committee Leaders Release Updated SGR Fix Draft

The House Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means committees on Friday released a more detailed version of their long-term proposal to remove the flawed sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula for setting Medicare physician reimbursement

10 Residents Win Scholarships to Radiology Leadership Institute

Among the attendees of the second Radiology Leadership Institute event later this month will be ten radiology residents whose way will be paid by the ACR Foundation

Philips Signs $300 Million Deal with Georgia Regents Medical Center

The agreement with the not-for-profit 478-bed Medical Center was promoted by Philips and Georgia Regents as an innovative response to a changing health care marketplace

Bill Introduced to Reduce Influence of Specialists on Medicare Physician Rates

Concerned that having physicians sit on the Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC) that examines Medicare physician fee schedules could be a conflict of interest and might encourage higher specialist fees, Representative Jim McDermott (D-WA) has introduced a bill to create an independent panel of experts to review physician reimbursement

Business Intelligence

Major private payer encouraging employees to leave willingly

As Americans tuck into supplements like their health depends on it, specialized products are displacing multivitamins

Express Scripts sues Tennessee over PBM law that would close specialty pharmacy

FTC settles lawsuit with Optum Rx, ending its campaign against the ‘big three’ PBMs

Nvidia partners with clinical note-taking company to improve suite of AI models