Few business processes for radiology practices are as fraught as negotiating managed-care contracts. Their duration and durability put a significant level of both current and future income on the line, but small and medium-sized practices, in particular, might feel that they have little leverage in the negotiating process. The keys to gaining the

Going into 2013, the message for radiology regarding participation in the meaningful-use program has not changed; if anything, it has intensified, according to Keith Dreyer, DO, PhD, vice chair of radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and coauthor of The Radiologist’s Guide to Meaningful Use (RMU Press, 2011). “There is going to be

A new year is upon us, but in the radiology community, there is little to feel optimistic about this January. The fiscal-cliff negotiations came and went with no attention to the Multiple Procedure Payment Reduction in the 2013 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, but the utilization-rate assumption for imaging equipment was raised to a perilous 90%.

ClearRead +Confirm, new software from Riverain Technologies that improves the clarity of conventional X-ray images, has received 510(k) clearance from the FDA.

Health care added 45,000 jobs in December, and total health care employment rose by 338,000 in 2012

The American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) has named Deborah J. Bowen, FACHE, CAE, president and chief executive officer

A new study shows that fewer than one in five healthcare providers meet Medicare Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) requirements

Chairman & CEO and president positions for the new subsidiary will go to Cannon veteran leaders Joe Adachi (left) and Toyotsugu Kuwamura