As an eye surgeon, Sen. Rand Paul, MD (R, Ky.), knows the problems associated with the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula that helps determine Medicare physician pay. However, eliminating the SGR may not have been his only motivation in introducing the Access to Physicians in Medicare Act (S. 3337), and that makes it a non-started with Democrats

Fairfield Medical Center in Lancaster, Ohio, has purchased River View Imaging Center from Columbus-based Mount Carmel Health System for a little more than $800,000, according to a Lancaster Eagle-Gazette report.

Crestwood Hospital and the city of Madison, Alabama held a ceremony on July 12, to break ground on a new $7.5 million outpatient diagnostic and imaging facility.

Virtual Radiologic (vRad) congratulated its Chief Medical Officer and Chief Operating Officer, Pat Basu, MD, for his election to the Council on Foreign Relations and his recent appointment to the Illinois State Board of Health.

The Fairmont Le Chateau Frontenac hotel has partnered with a private radiology clinic in Quebec City to offer a "medical tourism package," claiming this is the first of its kind in Canada.

Charles Metz, mathematician and professor of radiology at the University of Chicago, died of pancreatic cancer at age 69 on Wednesday, July 4.

AB 510, the California bill that amends the California Radiation Protection Act that took effect on July 1, was signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown on Friday, July 13.

Faced with a massive, vague health care law, a stalled economy, and spiraling health care costs, GE CEO Jeffrey R. Immelt signaled the readiness of employers to begin to bring their muscle to bear on the health care market, even to the point of eventually bypassing insurers.