Health care expenditures aren’t entirely rising across the board: The “cost growth” of medical care for individuals in employer-sponsored health plans has slowed to an annualized rate of 3.8% in the first three months of the year, compared to the “cost growth” rate of 6.3% recorded for the first quarter of 2010, according to the recently released

Zotec Partners, an Indianapolis, Ind.-based provider of medical billing, practice management, and radiology information systems (RIS) software and services, today announced that its Electronic Billing Center (EBC) RIS software version 6.7 has been tested and certified for Ambulatory Meaningful Use by the Certified HIT Product List (CHPL) under

President Obama and lawmakers in both parties are openly expressing their support of a new strategy for reducing the federal debt unveiled Tuesday, deeming the emerging plan to save $3.7 trillion over the next decade a viable means of helping to break a political impasse over the debt limit and avert a U.S. default.

Short-term hormone therapy (androgen deprivation therapy, or ADT) administered in combination with radiation therapy for men with early-stage prostate cancer increases their chance of living longer and not dying from the disease, compared with that of those who receive the same radiation therapy alone, according to a Radiation Therapy Oncology

The Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has created a new link to be used by the public for commenting on the 2012 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule officially published in the Federal Register Tuesday. The link, which is found on the Web site www.regulations.gov, replaces a link designed for the same purpose and sent to

Get ready for a record-breaking year on the health care mergers and acquisitions (M&A) front.

The American College of Radiology (ACR) and the Society of Breast Imaging yesterday announced that they “applaud and support” updated American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ (ACOG) recommendations that women begin to receive annual mammograms at age 40. The updated ACOG recommendations, published in the August 2011 issue of Obstetrics

A bipartisan group of senators, among them John Kerry (D-MA), Herb Kohl (D-WI). and Lamar Alexander (R-TN), yesterday sent a letter to the Obama Administration protesting the inclusion of any diagnostic imaging cuts in legislation to raise the debt ceiling. The American College of Radiology (ACR) and the ACR-co-founded Access to Medical Imaging