Accretive Health, a medical debt collection company, has agreed to pay $2.5 million to the Minnesota state attorney general’s office to settle charges that it had pressured patients to pay for care prior to its delivery, according to the New York Times.

FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc. announced the latest addition to its family of DR products, the FDR D-EVO Suite II. It is a cost effective, flexible, DR room solution designed to optimize workflow while utilizing any of Fujifilm’s popular FDR D-EVO portable detectors.

Agfa HealthCare announced that its table-top computed radiography (CR) solution, the CR 10-X, has acquired FDA 510(k) clearance. According to Agfa HealthCare, the CR 10-X is affordable, compact, and provides small hospitals and practices an economical path from analog to digital radiology.

Intermountain Healthcare says it is joining with GE Healthcare to reduce radiation dose in CT procedures at its facilities by up to 50 percent, using the GE Blueprint for low dose.

In July, the total number of co-sponsors for Senate bill number 2347, the Diagnostic Imaging Services Access Protection Act, doubled from six to 12, the ACR stated today.

When the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its proposed 2013 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS), members of the radiation oncology community discovered that they would face for cuts representing a 15 percent reduction in overall payment. According to the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO), this would

Late yesterday afternoon, RadNet Inc., the nation’s largest imaging center chain, performed its first Alzheimer’s Disease test using Eli Lilly’s radioactive tracer Amyvid and PET/CT imaging, confirmed Judith Rose, MD, director of PET/CT and nuclear medicine for RadNet.

Final Stage 3 meaningful use rules are a long way away—2014 by most estimates—but initial guidelines are indeed being discussed. According to Michael Peters, the American College of Radiology (ACR) continues to strongly advocate for appropriateness / criteria-based clinical decision support (CDS) to be leveraged by referring physicians during order