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.
Patient price-shopping has driven headlines throughout 2012, and today, United Healthcare contributed to the conversation with the roll-out of its digital procedure cost estimator.
A Maryland radiologist is challenging Virginia certificate-of-need laws in federal court, saying that the laws requiring him to demonstrate a patient demand for his services prior to opening a new imaging center are outdated and anti-competitive.
Although the number of CT procedures performed across the country is still increasing annually, a new survey from market researchers IMV shows that the days of double-digit growth are behind the industry.
Cardinal Health announced that it will manufacture and distribute Amyvid, Eli Lilly and Company's new diagnostic imaging agent that aids in the evaluation of adult patients with cognitive impairment who may have Alzheimer's Disease and other causes of cognitive decline.
The percentage of consumers who shop around for healthcare prices is up from 2010 levels, according to a poll from NPR-Thomson Reuters, and patients are seeking information almost equally from doctors and insurers.
After weeks of public campaigning, the movement to repeal a medical device manufacturer tax that will impact all makers of medical devices, including imaging equipment manufacturers, is scheduled to come to a vote this week in the House of Representatives.
Maryland-based IT developer Force 3, a provider of dental imaging for military customers, has acquired secureRAD of Annapolis, MD, which develops secure, cloud-based image-sharing technologies.
GE Healthcare signed a deal with Swedish contrast agent developer Affibody AB for the development of a PET imaging agent that targets Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 (Her2), a breast cancer biomarker.