The American Institute for Radiologic Pathology (AIRP), a program of the American College of Radiology, has unveiled a new iPad® edition of the 2011 AIRP Radiologic Pathology Correlation Course Syllabus.

“Triple jeopardy” for income cuts is what radiologists in particular face following the inability of the congressional supercommittee to come to an agreement on ways to handle the federal deficit, Peter Carmel, MD, president of the American Medical Association (AMA), told attendees in a plenary speech delivered at this week’s Radiological Society

Thirteen states today received from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) a total of $220 million in grants to build health insurance exchanges. Grant recipients include Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Nebraska, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Vermont.

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) will not deliver on their proponents’ promise of reducing costs and improving quality of care, Federal Trade Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch told an audience at the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Law Fall Forum in Washington, D.C., on November 17.

The transition to bundled health care payments remains several years away, with certain obstacles impeding progress in that direction, reveals a study by non-profit research organization Rand Corp.

The nomination of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Principal Deputy Marilyn Tavenner to lead the agency is garnering support among health care industry stakeholders.

The American College of Radiology (ACR) is asking imaging stakeholders attending this week’s Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) meeting in Chicago to urge members of Congress to support the Diagnostic Imaging Services Protection Act (H.R. 3269).

The Obama administration announced Wednesday the resignation of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Donald Berwick, MD. Berwick’s last day will be Friday, December 2, and his principal deputy administrator, Marilyn Tavenner, will serve as interim administrator until the Senate votes to make her appointment permanent.