South Hills Radiology Associates has turned to McKesson Revenue Management Solutions to replace its in-house billing operation.

RadCare, a division of Dallas-based EmCare, has been blocked from taking over radiology services at Maui Memorial Medical Center in Hawaii by a temporary restraining order issued last week. Judge Kelsey Kawano, of the 2nd Circuit Court, has set a hearing on the dispute for July 11, according to a report from The Maui News.

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has issued a ruling upholding the individual mandate portion of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), and both supporters and opponents of the law have returned to their respective corners, its time to look ahead to where the focus of the next round in the ongoing healthcare reform bout will be.

Altarum Institute and its partners, United Physicians (a physician organization of independent doctors practicing in Southeast Michigan) and the Detroit Medical Center Physician Hospital Organization, have been awarded $8.4 million from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to develop and employ a systemic model to reduce unnecessary medical imaging in Southeast Michigan.

In the midst of an increasingly tight job market for radiologists, experts remained somewhat bullish about radiologists overall prospectsprovided the profession can adapt to an evolving environment, according to a panel discussion published in the July issue of American Journal of Roentgenology.

On the whole, does the EMR do more harm than good in U.S. healthcare? If a case can be made to unambiguously answer in the affirmative, Elizabeth Toll, MD, does just that in The Cost of Technology, a compelling essay currently running in the opinion section of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Read the conclusion of this two-part Q&A series where Toll expounded on her points during a phone interview.

The rate of malpractice claims when EHRs were used was about one-sixth the rate when EHRs were not used, according to the results of a survey of physicians published online this month in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

A survey of colorectal cancer screening patterns among primary care physicians has shown that a large proportion would recommend screening for patients with advanced cancer who do not stand to benefit, according to results published online June 1 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.