Private fee-for-service (PFFS) Medicare Advantage plans will be paid an average 16.6 percent more in 2008 compared to what the same enrollees would have cost in the traditional Medicare FFS program, according to a report from the Commonwealth Fund.

Remotely monitoring patients with chronic diseases, such as congestive heart failure, could cut nearly $200 billion from U.S. healthcare costs over the next 25 years, according to a new study by economist Robert Litan.

More medical centers are offering CT colonoscopy as new research has emerged, validating its efficacy and accuracy compared to a standard colonoscopy.

Alliance Imaging, a provider of outpatient diagnostic imaging and radiation therapy services, has named Richard J. Hall as president of Alliance Oncology and Mark Carol, MD, as chief medical officer of Alliance.

The costs, training and impact of HIPAA's new electronic claim standard (5010) have been underestimated by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and must be readdressed prior to the ICD-10-CM code set conversion, according to the American Medical Association (AMA).

Remotely monitoring patients with chronic diseases could cut nearly $200 billion from U.S. healthcare costs over the next 25 years, according to a new study by economist Robert Litan.

Advanced Technology QA Consortium (ATC) has signed an agreement to implement TeraMedica Healthcare Technologys Evercore Clinical Enterprise Suite as the DICOM archive for diagnostic imaging, DICOM RT and meta-data related to the radiation oncology clinical trial protocol patient data sets.

The global market for radiation therapy equipment is projected to reach $3.9 billion by 2015, driven by emerging demand from new economies, such as Asia-Pacific, Eastern Europe and Latin America, enhanced replacements and surfacing of new applications, according to report from Global Industry Analysts (GIA).