In the wake of the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, multiple aid groups rushed to the country to provide housing and medical care for the estimated 1.5 to 1.8 million residents displaced by the natural disaster. One such group was Health4Haiti, which had established a presence in the country several years before and had been building a clinic in

When referring physicians in Southington, Connecticut, grew weary of sending patients out of town to the nearest open MRI unit, they asked the board of directors at the Bradley Memorial campus of the Hospital of Central Connecticut to recommend a new open MRI system for the hospital’s MRI center. As director of imaging services, Michael Perrone was

Many changes mandated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) are already underway, but health care still has time for a deep breath before the biggest change of all: In 2014, the insured-patient base is set to explode, driven by limits in payors’ ability to deny coverage, by expansion of Medicaid, by the launch of state health

2011 proved to be another banner year for consolidation in the radiology industry, and with increasing downward pressure on reimbursement, the trend of groups joining together to provide more specialized care (while achieving economies of scale) can be expected to continue. While operational and financial assessments are premerger hallmarks,

In its December 12 article¹ on the future of health care, the Wall Street Journal makes a compelling case that the current and future state of our health-care system will center on alignment of formerly conflicting interests. Giant integrated delivery systems will increasingly include physicians, health systems, and payors in some type of giant

The US Senate approved legislation on Friday that averts Medicare reimbursement cuts for just two months rather than the two year “doc fix” contained in the version passed by the House last week.

The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association recognized a WellPoint subsidiary recently that helps steer consumer choices to less expensive diagnostic imaging centers.

The American College of Radiology’s newly created Leadership Institute added its first affiliate organization this week with the Radiology Business Management Association.