ImagingBiz.com | The recession put the squeeze on U.S. health care spending in 2009, but health care expenditures also took a bigger, record-setting bite out of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP), according to a report released earlier this week by CMS.
Shedding light on consistently spiraling...
AuntMinnie.com | January 4 - Medicare payments for diagnostic imaging to nonradiologist physicians -- especially cardiologists -- have surpassed payments to radiologists, according to a new study published in the January issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
David Levin, MD, and colleagues from...
The Los Angeles Times | January 3 - Should doctors be Facebook "friends" with their patients? Increasingly, professionals are stroking their beards and mulling the ethical ramifications (not to say potential for awkwardness) of such relationships.
Goodbye to posting "Man, I tied one on last night"...
The Washington Post | January 2 - Nearly three out of five people said in a recent Associated Press-GfK poll that people who paid into the system deserve their full benefits - no cuts.
But an updated financial analysis shows that the amount workers have paid does...
The New York Times | January 3 - Soon after the 112th Congress convenes Wednesday, Republicans in the House plan to make good on a campaign promise that helped vault many new members to victory: voting to repeal President Obama’s health care overhaul.
The vote, which Republican...
