Medical groups have become an attractive PE target in recent years, with investors acquiring about 1,000 such entities between 2010 and 2020, experts write in JAMA.
Gaps in coverage result in individuals paying anywhere from $234 for a follow-up diagnostic mammogram to over $1,000 for a breast MRI, Komen estimates.
Ben White, MD, a Texas neuroradiologist and writer, recently posed the question on his blog and offered five possible reasons why life is hard for this model of care.
Connecticut Sen. Saud Anwar, MD, proposed Bill No. 489 last month amid concerns about care delays at Hartford-based Jefferson Radiology, an affiliate of Rad Partners.
The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.