Alan Matsumoto, MD, explains the pros and cons of consolidation under hospital system and private equity ownership.

Dana Smetherman, MD, CEO of the American College of Radiology, says the organization wants to see transparent explainability of algorithms to increase public trust. 

American Medical Association (AMA) Board of Trustees Member Scott Ferguson, MD, explains the concern that a large number of rural hospitals will close under the massive Medicaid cuts in the "Big, Beautiful Bill" passed by Congress in July 2025.  

Dana Smetherman, MD, CEO of the ACR, explains a resolution adopted at the American Medical Association House of Delegates meeting calling for new health IT standards. 

SCAI and other healthcare groups want changes made to how healthcare providers are paid after performing office-based lab procedures. "As much as we love delivering care as doctors, if we are losing money doing something, we cannot sustain it," one cardiologist explained. 

Dana Smetherman, MD, CEO of the American College of Radiology, discusses the policy, which urges for more robust promotion of low-dose CT as a public health tool. 

American Medical Association President Bruce Scott, MD, explains some of the key issues facing physicians, including burnout, growing medical staffing shortages, doctors leaving rural areas, increasing patients and declining Medicare payments.

Erik Rockswold, director research and quality, Rayus Radiology, explains the administrative burdens radiology groups experience for little return from the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System.  

Harvard’s David A. Rosman, MD, MBA, explains how moving imaging outside of hospitals could save billions of dollars for U.S. healthcare.

Melissa Davis, MD, vice chair of medical informatics and associate professor at Yale University’s Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, shares her findings from research on private equity market penetration.