The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) earlier this week announced that it is proposing two sets of regulatory reforms and is finalizing a third rule, a move it says will reduce “unnecessary, obsolete, or burdensome regulations” as well as save hospitals and health care providers nearly $1.1 billion each year and more than $5 billion

The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011 shows that the U.S. health care system continues to fall short of attainable objectives.

It’s going to be a big year for health care mergers and acquisitions, with overall activity for 2011 expected to be 20%, higher than last year, according to The Health Care M&A Report, a new report from Irving Levin Associates. And given results from the past decade, 2011 will be among the top five years for health care M&A.

The Access to Medical Imaging Coalition is hotly contesting proposals to curtail Medicare payments for medical imaging tests, asserting through a report that such a move likey would pack no money-saving punch.

Virtual Radiologic (vRad), a technology-enabled national radiology practice, yesterday announced that it has formed a radiology partnership with ICON Medical Imaging (ICON), the medical imaging division of ICON plc.

Hospital medical staffs are increasingly expecting more from radiology—and small, traditional groups are struggling to keep up with those demands. That was the situation faced by Charles Rhoades, assistant administrator of clinical ancillary services at El Centro Regional Medical Center (ECRMC) in California.

Across the country, radiology groups, faced with a less-than-favorable reimbursement outlook and increasing expenditures, are considering selling their practices to or entering into joint ventures with hospitals. As with any major financial decision, a detailed discussion of the pros and cons is required, and there are several factors of which

The passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act made accountable-care organization (ACO) one of the most feared buzzwords since capitation, but if the concept of ACOs is framed within its larger context, which is a nationwide collaborative-care initiative with federal support, participation begins to seem less onerous.