Centric Health has terminated its agreement to acquire Medical Imaging Centre.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has confirmed the recent downward trend in Medicare spending and utilization on medical imaging procedures and said imaging services declined by 2.5 percent in 2010.
The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) was awarded money from the Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration Market Development Cooperator program to increase exports and expand access to diagnostic medical imaging, radiation therapy and radiopharmaceuticals in new markets.
Porter Hospital in Valparaiso, Ind., has purchased Merge’s iConnect image interoperability platform.
Health IT company TeraRecon showed iNtuition advanced visualization and cloud products at this year’s scientific meeting of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) in Denver, July 14-17.
Payors and patients may be vastly overpaying for some of the most common CT, MRI and mammography exams owing to huge price disparities both within and across regions, according to a quarterly report issued by change:healthcare.
Researchers found low fetal radiation exposures in a retrospective study assessing the effects of F-FDG PET studies performed on pregnant patients with cancer, according to findings published in the July issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
Self-referring physicians are 2.5 times more likely to order imaging exams on patients than physicians without financial stakes in imaging orders, resulting in an estimated $3.6 billion in additional healthcare costs each year, according to a study published in the July issue of the
Journal of the American College of Radiology.
NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes has located a new 82,000 square-foot, $194 million production facility in Beloit, Wis., where the company hopes to create 150 jobs by 2016. The new facility will utilize linear accelerators to produce radioisotopes used for medical imaging.
A bipartisan group of 61 Members of Congress, led by Rep. Pete Olson (R-TX) of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and Rep. Jason Altmire (D-PA) of the House Small Business Committee, signed and circulated a letter to congressional colleagues expressing concern over imaging cuts recommended by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC).
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