The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) yesterday announced that it has granted Sectra clearance to market its Sectra MicroDose Mammography L30 low-dose digital mammography unit for sale in the U.S.

The likelihood that patients with intermittent caludification will undergo revascularization is highest when those patients are treated by cardiologists and vascular surgeons, even if exercise is the preferred approach, according to research to be presented this week during the American Roentgen Ray Society’s annual meeting in Chicago.

In the midst of a hostile, $6-per-share, $3.3 billion takeover bid for rival Tenet Healthcare, Community Health Systems (CHS) last Thursday defended itself against Tenet’s allegations of improper patient admission practices, calling them “contrived and biased.” The move follows a lawsuit filed by Tenet on April 11, in which it charged CHS—whose

GE Healthcare late last week announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Applied Precision, Inc., a supplier of cellular imaging technologies for the cell biology and biomedical research sectors. The acquisition of Applied Precision will allow GE Healthcare to expand its offering of products and services for pharmaceutical and life

The merger/acquisition market is heating up in radiology. Over the past few months, several mergers of large practices have created even larger ones, and other groups are likely to be considering similar moves. While entering into a merger agreement has its benefits, though, not all potential partners are entirely suited for each other. Moreover,

It has long been said that information is power, and if that is the case, actionable information is even more powerful. For members of independent physician networks, such data are the linchpin in achieving alignment with hospitals, leveraging relationships, attaining preferred status with payors, and more.

Full charge-capture has become a must for today’s radiology practices. In addition to affording the obvious advantages of improved cash flow and lost-income recovery, full charge-capture offers providers access to a more complete—and therefore, more accurate—complement of data for use in negotiating with hospitals and payors, assessing physician

In what can be seen as a cautionary tale for any hospital that trains residents, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, N.H., has agreed to pay more than $2.2 million to settle charges that it improperly billed several federal healthcare programs, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont announced yesterday. More than $80,000 of the