Malpractice payouts of $1 million or more—so-called catastrophic claims—collectively make up $1.4 billion a year, less than one-tenth of one percent of the total national medical expenditures in the U.S., according to a study published online April 29 in the Journal for Healthcare Quality.

Headlines about the sequester budget cuts over the last week have focused on airline delays and Federal Aviation Administration furloughs, but the impact of the cuts could be taking a much graver toll on Medicare patients with cancer.

As mounting research points to unsustainable costs in cancer treatments and a lack of clarity in oncology clinical trials, a trio of experts has proposed a new model to attain accountable cancer care—Cancer Care Groups (CCGs)—in a viewpoint published online April 29 in JAMA Internal Medicine.

As price tags for recently FDA-approved drugs to treat chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) have soared past the $100, 000 level, a group of more than 100 oncologists have characterized the price tags as “too high and unsustainable,” and argued that prices may impede needy patients’ access to treatment and threaten the sustainability of healthcare systems in an article published online April 25 in Blood.

It appears there are just two remaining potential bidders vying for control of Carestream Health, according to a Reuters report.

Image-guided and robot-assisted surgeries have made successful inroads into the western European market. The significant cost and clinical benefits offered by such advanced surgical systems has been key to boosting their adoption rates.

Malpractice claim payouts for diagnostic errors amounted to $38.8 billion between 1986 and 2010, according to a study published online April 22 in BMJ Quality and Safety.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) focus on multiple-procedure payment reductions (MPPRs) as a way to curb imaging growth is one of radiology's greatest challenges, according to an article published in the April issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR).