Two-thirds of the nation's hospitals will get hit with fines in the second round of Medicare's readmission penalties, according to data released Friday by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. For the upcoming year, 2,225 of the nation's 5,700 hospitals will receive payment reductions totaling $227 million starting on Oct. 1. Read about it here.
In case you missed the news the PPACA (Obamacare) took an interesting turn over the Independence Day Holiday. Without anyone paying much attention a British company was chosen to manage the roll-out of Obamacare. Irony may not quite describe what happened but it appears the government is struggling to meet its own deadlines. Read about [...]
As insurance companies and care providers form ACOs to provide a changed patient care model they are learning much about technology, patients and altered payment systems. Read about it here
Developers and users of CCTA are racing to win the fight and prove CCTA is better than invasive angiography. Here is the latest score published in Cardiovascular Business.
This new standard will limit the access of unauthorized users and make it more difficult to alter operating protocols. It does not change applications or service access. read more
MRI is pushing hard against the traditional space for PET/CT and other nuclear imaging. With the worry about radiation exposure will this technology win out over PET/CT? read more