The American Healthcare Radiology Administrators (AHRA) annual meeting winds up today and the vendors will be packing their booths. Here are some of the news items that caught our eye at the conference.

Advocates for broader coverage for low-dose CT lung cancer screening in patients with a heavy smoking history and other risk factors are cheering news that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will follow the lead of some private payors and cover the testing ahead of a Medicare coverage decision.

The impact of the Robert Smith-FDA whistleblower scandal has a farther reach than the stigma of internal spying, argues a Forbes op/ed piece.

Transparency is a term that can be applied to almost any aspect of a business’ operations, and while it is always a worthwhile goal, it is particularly important for radiology practices to embrace and achieve transparency when it comes to the billing cycle. A practice’s financial health is significantly improved by an ongoing understanding of the

On June 8, Insight Imaging and Center for Diagnostic Imaging (CDI) announced their plans to merge. Venture capital played a key role in the transaction, with Black Diamond Capital Management, which owns a majority interest in Insight Imaging, enabling it to buy out the owners of CDI. The combined organization will be headquartered in Minneapolis,

The interventional-radiology department at Tufts Medical Center (Boston, Massachusetts) was an early adopter of the workflow tool HI-IQ, developed by ConexSys; however, a recent initiative to develop a paperless workflow led the department to fuller use of its features. “When I came on board two years ago, we sat down and looked at the capabilities

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The rhetoric has been pretty hot as the presidential candidates face off in the final sprint to the finish line. Much of the discussion concerns the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, but no small amount of attention has also been paid to a debate about the respective roles of business and government, beyond health care, in the broader