UnitedHealth, the nation’s largest insurer, told California state regulators that it would leave the California individual health insurance market, effective at the close of 2013. A similar move by Aetna last month leaves a combined 58,000 Californians shopping for coverage in a market that does not include the nation’s two largest insurance companies, according to an article in the Los Angeles Times.

H.R. 2545, a bill to create an “independent” panel to advise on the relative value of physician services, repeats old and invalid criticisms of the Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC) said Geraldine B. McGinty, MD, chair of the ACR’s Commission on Economics and a member of the RUC

The Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute was set up in part to challenge wrong assumptions about the role of imaging in the rise in health spending, and the latest study from the Institute does just that

The AHRQ approval of the patient safety organization established by the Palmeto, Fla.-based network of radiology practices allows Strategic Radiology to move forward with the sharing of radiology safety and quality best practices

MemorialCare Medical Foundation, the physician group division of MemorialCare Health System in Southern California, has entered into a joint venture partnership with SimonMed, an imaging company, to operate five imaging centers in the counties of Los Angeles and Orange

The House Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means committees on Friday released a more detailed version of their long-term proposal to remove the flawed sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula for setting Medicare physician reimbursement

Among the attendees of the second Radiology Leadership Institute event later this month will be ten radiology residents whose way will be paid by the ACR Foundation

The agreement with the not-for-profit 478-bed Medical Center was promoted by Philips and Georgia Regents as an innovative response to a changing health care marketplace