Two years ago, CMS published an interim final rule¹ (with a comment period) implementing several changes to the Medicare and Medicaid programs mandated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The interim final rule of May 2010 established new rules on obtaining and maintaining written orders for imaging services, as well as orders or

The very nature of many radiology groups’ governance structures—highly democratic, split among multiple partners, and with each partner’s vote given equal weight—creates an unfortunate tendency toward emotional decision making. As the inside joke goes, in a radiology practice, you call 99 votes versus one vote a tie. Decision making can easily be

In April, Medscape released results from its annual physician survey¹ on salary, job satisfaction, and more; among the most controversial of these results was the revelation that only 54% of those surveyed said that they would choose medicine again as a career. Stephen Pomeranz, MD, founder and CEO of ProScan Imaging (Cincinnati, Ohio), connects

I have written in this column and spoken around the country about the perfect storm that the radiology profession is experiencing these days, and at the time of this writing, the storm clouds continue to gather. A call, last week, from industry veteran and colleague Tim Stampp, MBA, of Medical Imaging Specialists, capped another tumultuous month of

In the six years he was employed by the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL, radiology technician Steven Beumel swapped out Fentanyl for saline laced with Hepatitis C at least five times. Today, the 48-year-old man pled guilty to charges of tampering and theft by deception. One man died as a result of his actions, never knowing how he'd contracted the

The United Kingdom Department of Health extended its PACS contract with global management consultancy Accenture for another year, the group announced yesterday.

Anxiety about the impact of national healthcare reform reverberated throughout the halls of lawmakers, policymakers, and federal administrators this week, as America tries to decide where and how its healthcare system will bear the burden of increasing patient populations and the costs of treating them.

In March, BC Technical, Inc. acquired Consus Medical Imaging, a company that specializes in servicing Molecular Imaging equipment out of Jacksonville, FL. This acquisition will expand Utah-based BC Technical's customer base in the Southeast.