Medical Management Professionals, Inc. (MMP), an Atlanta-based national firm provider of billing and practice management services to radiologists and imaging centers, has announced that Randal Roat, CHBME, its vice president of radiology services, received the Calhoun Award from the Radiology Business Management Association (RBMA) at the 2011

Up to $500 million in Affordable Care Act (ACA) funding will be awarded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to help hospitals and providers develop new programs, training, and monitoring initiatives aimed at improving patient care, the agency announced Wednesday.

In a move seemingly reflective of new directions in payment-bundling and risk-sharing among payors and providers, McKesson announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Portico Systems, a vendor of systems and software to health plans. The pending acquisition will allow McKesson to assemble a suite of products and services to

In its fourth annual survey of United States and international health care consumers, released this week, the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions found that among its U.S. survey respondents 47% of those with health insurance had an imaging exam or test in the last 12 months. Among those without health insurance, it was only 20 percent.

Radiology-specific objectives and measures should be incorporated into Meaningful Use requirements, stipulates a position paper approved by the Radiology Business Management Association (RBMA) at its June board meeting in New Orleans.

The American Medical Association (AMA) has voted to continue its policy of supporting individual responsibility for health insurance with assistance for those who cannot afford it.

According to Medicalis, a provider of information-driven clinical and workflow solutions, part of the problem in curbing overutilization of diagnostic imaging is that ordering physicians often lack easy access to the right forms of decision support. The San Francisco-based company aims to solve this using a new cloud computing product called the

Royal Philips Electronics announced yesterday that it has acquired AllParts Medical, a privately owned, Nashville, Tenn.-based provider of imaging equipment parts and training. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.