As a broad concept, good consumer value isn’t hard to get a handle on. Varying definitions abound, to be sure, but the phrase is widely understood as shorthand for the best you can get for the least you have to spend without sacrificing too much on quality within a given product or service category.

At least 14 of the 30 states that took up the Affordable Care Act’s offer of federal aid to expand Medicaid are now fretting that they will have to make wrenching budgetary choices in two years, when the dollars from Washington start to diminish. 

The Affordable Care Act mandated that health insurers pick up the full tab for a number of evidence-based, preventive-care procedures. But for two of the top-targeted procedures, mammography and colonoscopy, patients haven’t exactly rushed doctors’ offices to take advantage of the free screening opportunities. 

A study in New Jersey, one of a growing number of states to mandate that insurers pay for sonograms of breasts deemed dense in screening mammography exams, may provide additional ammo to detractors who warn that such legislation is misplaced and unproductive. 

When it comes to inserting chest ports for venous access needed for repeated blood draws and drug administrations, interventional radiologists working in IR suites can do the job at far lower cost—yet with no greater rates of infection or complications—than surgeons in the OR. 

This week, the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in King v. Burwell—the case that threatened subsidies offered under the Affordable Care Act—dominated the headlines in healthcare.  Let’s take a look at some of the top quotes from the majority and dissenting opinions.

The Connecticut General Assembly made cuts to the state’s Medicaid program earlier this year, and while funding was partially restored for obstetrics and gynecology, a 42.5 percent cut to radiology services persists.

Despite a veto threat from the White House, the U.S. Senate is preparing to fast track a bill to kill the 2.3 percent medical device tax that was instituted as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).