Less than 15 years ago, a radiology group’s professional service agreement with a hospital was, according to Lawrence Muroff, MD, equivalent to “a relatively hassle-free tenure.” But Muroff, writing in the March issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR), says that things have changed. Radiology practices now have PSAs that are “more restrictive, more controlling and more demanding. . .”
NightHawk Radiology Holdings, a provider of radiology services to radiology groups and hospitals, has hired Timothy Myers, MD, as chief medical officer (CMO).
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The Maryland Insurance Administration has ordered UnitedHealthcare to pay $1.5 million to reimburse hospitals and radiology service providers for health insurance claims.
A European Union project aims to create an Ebay-style online market for radiology services.
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The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on proposed recommendations on implementation specifications for content exchange, vocabulary and code set standards for the Interim Final Rule of meaningful use.
In 2006, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), a branch of the FDA, began examining the number of medical device reports they received. Over the past two years, the number of submitted reports has increased, sparking a demand for the CDRH to make a move to electronic reporting.
A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.