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.

A survey of angiography labs in the U.S. shows the growth rate for interventional procedures rose just 1 percent over each of the past two years.

RadNet, one of the largest groups of outpatient imaging centers in the U.S., announced this week that it has expanded its technology with RADAR, a communication protocol.

House Republicans successfully passed legislation on Tuesday that postpones a 27 percent cut to Medicare physician reimbursements slated for Jan. 1, and also extends the $1,000 payroll tax break scheduled to expire this year.

Thirteen doctors and a nurse practitioner were arrested in New Jersey this week for accepting kickback payments for referring patients to a certain diagnostic imaging facility.

The American College of Radiology announced this week that it has joined with eight other medical specialty societies in a national campaign to promote wise choices by physicians and patients.

The American College of Radiology has raised concerns about a report in the British Medical Journal this month that says mammograms did more harm than good in the first 10 years of screening, even for women over the age of 50.