The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) today announced that Megan Hayes has joined the organization as Regulatory and Standards Director.

Optimism was running high this week that legislators would finally find a way to permanently repeal the flawed SGR formula. But on Friday, we learned the Senate would not take up a vote on the bill that would eliminate the SGR until after their two-week recess—meaning we’ll be blowing right past that “deadline” for physician payment cuts.

By an overwhelming margin of 392-37, the U.S. House passed a bill Thursday that would permanently replace the Medicare sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula. Attention will now turn to the Senate, which must pass the bill before April 1 to head off significant physician pay cuts.

By downloading the ACR 2015™ Annual Meeting App, radiology professionals can access up-to-the-minute ACR 2015 information – including CME session details, featured faculty and exclusive offers. The ACR 2015 App also alerts users when new information is released and provides exclusive access to cutting-edge educational content.

When Medicare launched its Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) in 2007, the agency might just as well have come right out and told physicians: Show your quality or forfeit your profitability.

As usual, this year's HIMSS Conference & Exhibition offers an impressive list of keynote speakers.

The FDA has issued separate Class II recalls for MRI systems from GE Healthcare and Siemens.

When the calendar flipped to 2015, a number of changes occurred with Medicare’s Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) program, with the headline being the disappearance of incentive payments.