Determined to remain independent, Midstate Radiology Associates of Meriden, Connecticut, grew from 11 radiologists to more than 40 in less than five years. How did they pull it off—and what can like-minded groups do to follow suit? 

Drug prices are still rising, with manufacturers hiking up prices at the start of 2020. And the “reluctance” from the Republican party to challenge those rising prices could become a huge liability for the upcoming 2020 election, according to The Hill.

The Department of Justice has recouped more than $3 billion in 2019 from settlements and judgements from false claims and fraud. Of these cases, $2.6 billion came from the healthcare industry.

The University of Wisconsin’s Perry Pickhardt, MD, made his pitch in a new analysis, published Jan. 8 in the American Journal of Roentgenology. 

Americans continued to rank nurses highest for honesty and ethics among a list of professions for the 18th year in a row in 2019, according to a recent Gallup poll.

Covera Health will use the funds to speed up research and development of tools to measure the impact of errors in imaging.

Drug prices are still rising in 2020, but the rate of inflation appears to be slowing down. For investors, however, that might be good news, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The finding was part of a wide-ranging survey of doctors’ after-work habits across the U.S., gauging everything from automobile preference to pot and alcohol use.