Hospitals are rich and poised to get richer while independent physicians and groups continue to take it on the chin, facing ever more onerous pressures to consolidate under the headship of large hospitals, health systems or for-profit practice management companies.

A three-site imaging operation in Hawaii has been turning away patients since Oct. 20 due to what its management initially described as unspecified “technical difficulties.”

A jury in Georgia has pinned 60% of the blame for a stroke patient’s permanent whole-body paralysis on an ER physician and 40% on a radiologist—while clearing all other clinicians who had a hand in the catastrophic episode of care.

More than 30% of surveyed PACS users are looking around for a potential replacement, according to an 82-page report from KLAS. “The U.S. PACS market is poised for change," the report's authors wrote. 

CMS has finalized the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) for 2023, and its reimbursement reductions for radiology are less harsh than those proposed preliminarily in July.