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The Private Equity Stakeholder Project estimates there were 1,029 such transactions across the entire healthcare sector last year. 

Cigna

The Connecticut-based payer is labeling peripheral nerve stimulation, used to treat chronic pain, as medically unnecessary, with the Society of Interventional Radiology and others questioning the rationale. 

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Bipartisan lawmakers previously introduced the No Surprises Act Enforcement Act last summer, seeking to close loopholes in the landmark legislation. 

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Members of Congress caution that the fee could be especially consequential for rural and urban safety net hospitals, which could be pushed “to their financial brink” if they are required to absorb the charge.

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Experts believe the imaging agent "has the potential to meaningfully advance early diagnosis, change the treatment paradigm and improve patient outcomes."

Rich Fabian, Medical Imaging Technology at AdvaMed Imaging chair of board, a medtech industry group made up of medical imaging companies to address higher level public policy concerns, explains key reimbursement issues impacting medical imaging.

Chairman Rich Fabian says AdvaMed Imaging is concerned about low Medicare pay rates and onerous rules created by private insurers. 

 

COVID-19 medical imaging examples of various clinical presentations. SARS-CoV-2 clinical imaging presentations.

This image gallery shows what the various clinical presentations associated with the COVID-19 and long COVID that have been documented during and after coronavirus pandemic.

iad Ali, MD, DPhil, director of the DeMatteis Cardiovascular Institute and director investigational interventional cardiology, St. Francis Hospital and Heart Center, explains how coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) offers a shift in cardiac care and interventional cardiology because of the information it offers on plaque burden and ischemia based on fractional flow reserve CT (FFR-CT). #TCT #YesCCT

Ziad Ali, MD, explains how coronary computed tomography angiography is creating a major shift in cardiac care.

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Let’s conduct a quick thought experiment. We enter a time machine and set the controls for Connecticut in 2015. As luck would have it, we land in a meeting room of the imaging department at the Yale-New Haven Health system. There we overhear a conversation. Imaging aficionados that we are, we quickly realize two groups are present—IT leaders and ranking radiologists. It’s hard to make out the exact words through the time warp. However, we clearly hear one term repeated several times: “deconstructed PACS.” 

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The most funded categories across the specialty included medical devices ($3.2B), AI software ($2.5B), and biotechnology ($2.1B). 

Lumexa Imaging

“We view this as meaningfully credit positive for its financial policy because private equity investors tend to favor high leverage to enhance their returns,” S&P notes. 

IR Centers

IR Centers, a platform company dedicated to offering minimally invasive procedures in diverse outpatient settings, is teaming with doc groups in Alabama, Texas and Virginia. 

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Ziad Ali, MD, explains how coronary computed tomography angiography is creating a major shift in cardiac care.