Radiology Business Journal | November 15 - Arnold Schwarzenegger, California’s governor, signed a new radiation patient protection law in October 2010 that mandates strict procedures and reporting requirements for CT scanners and radiation-therapy procedures, as well as the reporting of radiation overdoses to the state’s Department of...

The Wall Street Journal | November 22 - Huge budget shortfalls are prompting a handful of states to begin discussing a once-unthinkable scenario: dropping out of the Medicaid insurance program for the poor. Elected and appointed officials in nearly a half-dozen states, including Washington, Texas and South...

HealthLeadersMedia.com | November 19 - There will be wide variability in the types of accountable care organizations that are established in the near future. Some will be tightly organized around existing integrated delivery networks. Others will be based on independent physician associations without an integrated...

HealthLeadersMedia.com | November 22 - Healthcare reform will dramatically change how physicians conduct business and likely will mean the end of full-time, independent, private practitioners accepting third-party payments, according to a new report. Instead, the survey and report commissioned by Boston-based The Physicians Foundation predicts that physicians...

ModernHealthcare.com | November 19 - An alliance of six associations representing U.S. hospitals formally filed a friend-of-the-court brief backing the Obama administration in the marquee lawsuit among several aiming to gut the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The American Hospital Association, Federation of American Hospitals,...