While revised from 50% to 25%, multiple procedure payment reductions for imaging interpretation contained in the Medicare final rule released earlier this week by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are "unfounded" and "potentially dangerous", the American College of Radiology (ACR) said today.

CEOs continue to earn higher salaries than their CFO counterparts, but the difference in pay between the two groups is smaller in the health care market than in all other major industries, according to an analysis by BDO USA LLP, a Chicago-based accounting and consulting firm..

Continuing the debate on the “breast density issue”, the National Mammography Quality Assurance Advisory Committee (NMQAAC) of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will convene on Friday to debate whether the latter should require mammography facilities to reveal the presence of breast density in women via reports sent to referring

A 27.4% reduction in Medicare payments to physicians has been stipulated in the final rule for the 2012 physician fee schedule released yesterday by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The payment reduction, which is based on the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula, was anticipated to have been a slightly higher 29.5%.

Carestream Health announced that version 11 of its Vue RIS has been certified as an electronic health record (EHR) module by the Certification Commission For Health Information Technology (CCHIT®), in accordance with applicable hospital and eligible provider certification criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Medicare must exercise much more stringent oversight of hospitals, according to a report issued today by the Office of Inspector General (OIG), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The congressional supercommittee responsible for finding an additional $1.2 trillion worth of health care expenditures to eliminate from the federal deficit by Thanksgiving will experience significant challenges in getting the job done, reveals a perspective authored by researchers at the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) and published

Some 56 million U.S. consumers have accessed their medical information on an electronic health record (EHR) system maintained by their physician, and an additional 41 million are interested in doing so.