For-profit hospital giant HCA has entered into discussions to acquire Mission Health, a nonprofit six-hospital system based out of Asheville, North Carolina, in a deal Mission admitted may result in some jobs being eliminated.

A long-standing agreement between three rural Montana hospitals—Monida Shared Imaging—recently added a second mobile MRI unit to bring state-of-the-art equipment to areas that would have been without, Kpax.com reports.

To engage millennial radiology trainees, educators need to pay special attention to their unique learning patterns, according to a new study published in Academic Radiology.

Medicare was the primary payer for 90 percent of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) hospitalizations over a recent three-year period, according to a March 19 report in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions. With that in mind, the recent proposal to cut $473 billion from the CMS budget over the next decade could limit access to the increasingly popular procedure, researchers noted.

CMS Administrator Seema Verma, MPH, offered some hints at the agency’s priorities in its annual rulemaking for Medicare this year, suggesting a slew of new policies on price transparency, interoperability and physician self-referral laws.

Using realistic 3D-printed models can help train medical students on the subject of interventional radiology vascular access, according to new research presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) annual meeting in Los Angeles.

In a proposed rule, CMS would loosen requirements for states with Medicaid managed care programs on analyzing and monitoring access to care, a move the agency said would provide additional relief on “burdensome” regulations finalized by the prior administration.

A group of New England researchers analyzed patient narratives, finding clinical codes and communication breakdown as the most common reasons for complaints, with no significant difference between multifactorial and single-coded complaints.