Additional reimbursement cuts are on the horizon, so 2013 is expected to present ample acquisition opportunity for buyers hoping to purchase pressured imaging centers. In planning to acquire an imaging center, there are three key items that should be addressed early in the process to help streamline a potential acquisition. If not adequately

Four Washington health-care providers were facing a problem. Harrison Medical Center (Bremerton), Advanced Medical Imaging (Silverdale), The Doctors Clinic (Silverdale), and Olympic Radiology (Bremerton)—all separate, multisite organizations located on the Kitsap Peninsula, west of Seattle—knew that having competitors was creating problems for

Every year since 2001, the ACR® Forum has gathered experts from within and outside radiology to discuss issues facing the specialty. The theme for the 12th Annual ACR Forum, held in June 2012 in Reston, Virginia, was Radiology in 2022, and participants (including the publisher of ImagingBiz) were asked to look ahead to anticipate the challenges

A beloved professor of mine once told me that the value of a liberal-arts education was not in learning what to think, but in learning how to think. I have remembered this maxim often in the years since I finished being formally educated; I’m not sure anyone is ever done learning how to think, no matter how many years of schooling he or she has had

Accuray Inc., a radiation oncology company, reported declines in revenue for the second quarter of fiscal 2013 in its latest financials

A bi-partisan bill to prevent the Federal Helium Reserve from closing this year and make helium prices more fair has been introduced in the House of Representatives

When the latest CBO report on Medicare spending growth dropped the price tag on a permanent SGR fix by $100 billion, legislators jumped on this discount "doc" fix

Minnesota legislators are again taking up the effort to repeal the medical device tax in the Affordable Care Act