February 2025

NP leader scores $750,000 grant with hopes of boosting lung cancer screening uptake by the thousands ()
ACR pans federal idea to let nonphysicians read X-rays, citing ‘resounding backlash’ ()
Efforts needed to improve interventional radiology awareness among specialists: Survey ()
Radiologist claims he was shorted in $20M imaging center sale to private equity platform ()
RadNet sees rocky 2025 start, with severe weather leading to $22M revenue loss ()
Biograph, a new whole-body MRI startup, launches with $7,500 membership fee ()
Small practices, individual radiologists at a disadvantage in Medicare quality pay program ()
RadNet teams with OB-GYN practice to launch breast imaging services across multiple locations ()
Radiology provider Akumin establishes physician advisory board to spur innovation ()
Radiology Partners fires back in battle with Aetna, accusing payer of ‘shamelessly prioritizing profits’ ()
Appeals court rejects radiologist’s attempt to revive whistleblower suit over ‘troubling’ IR colleague ()
Radiologists skeptical of projections that rad shortages will persist into 2055 ()
President Trump signs executive order on healthcare price transparency ()
Fujifilm scores $10M imaging contract with the US military ()
SimonMed Imaging failed to protect patient information before ransomware attack, class action lawsuit claims ()
Imaging startup Ezra hopes to launch 15-minute, $500 whole-body MRI by 2026 ()
Canon Healthcare investing $34M to open new US headquarters, imaging resource center ()
What radiology leaders can learn from the world’s ‘Blue Zones,’ where people live significantly longer ()
Radiology societies demand moratorium on enforcement of ‘concerning’ Medicare decision ()
Chinese companies accused of conspiring to steal imaging trade secrets from Philips ()
Imaging industry lobbying group criticizes FDA staffing cuts ()
East Coast health system launches radiology residency program to combat ‘critical shortage’ ()
Siemens raises $1.5B by selling stake in Healthineers imaging division ()
How radiology groups can contain damage from future cyberattacks ()
Physicians refer lower-pay Medicaid patients to interventional radiology, operate on more lucrative commercially insured ()
Strategic Radiology enters new state, adding 24-physician Radiology Inc. ()
Private equity-backed digital education platform TrueLearn acquires radiology vendor Medality ()
Private-equity radiology group owner Grovecourt Capital acquires MRI solutions provider IMRIS Imaging ()
4 factors driving diagnostic radiology profession’s ‘popularity surge’ ()
ACR hopes new quality metric could boost lung cancer screening rates to 70% ()
Patients fail to undergo follow-up breast imaging services, despite same-day availability ()
Data-sharing startup Avandra Imaging raises nearly $18M from top health systems, others ()
Radiology practices ‘strongly’ urged to seek counsel over Corporate Transparency Act ()
Physician turnover increases after private-equity investors sell their practice ownership stake ()
Urology practice joins growing number of peers hiring interventional radiologists ()
Radiology practice SimonMed Imaging suffers apparent ransomware attack ()
Radiology groups ‘look forward’ to working with new HHS Secretary RFK Jr. ()
Whole-body MRI radiology group Prenuvo raises $120M, launches new scan services ()
Radiologists debate the merits of AI for work list triage in emergency settings ()
Congressman proposes banning prior authorization across all health plans ()
$16.4M grant fuels creation of ‘world’s first’ mobile, whole-body CT scanner ()
Mexico, not China, is biggest tariff concern among radiology vendors ()
Radiologist shortage will persist into 2055 without counteraction ()
Radiology artificial intelligence firm Harrison.ai raises $112M, opens US office ()
Radiologists overlook lung lesion on X-ray leading to nearly 5-year cancer diagnosis delay ()
The impact of Trump tariffs on iodine contrast media costs ()
ACR wants Medicare to add more radiology measures in MIPS quality pay program ()
Clinical decision support fails to reduce inappropriate imaging requests ()
Radiology societies, all 50 state medical associations push Medicare pay fix ()
ACR wants radiology prioritized in Senate bill to boost number of residency slots ()
Academic practices may be losing radiologists to more flexible competitors, data show ()
Pennsylvania, South Carolina propose requiring insurers to cover breast MRI, ultrasound ()
Cyberattack forces radiology practice to close ‘for the foreseeable future’ ()
Radiologist ponders: ‘If private practice is so great, why are so many groups struggling?’ ()
State senator wants task force to study private equity’s impact on radiology ()
Radiology practice SimonMed Imaging launches breast AI program charging $40 a pop ()
Troubled radiology vendor’s stock delisted from the Nasdaq ()
Physicians want Medicare Advantage plans to stop auto-denying imaging services ()
Ultrasound-maker Butterfly Network seeks to raise $76M through public stock offering ()
Should emergency medicine malpractice protections extend to consultant radiologists? ()
Top performing PACS companies based on user feedback ()
Radiology business advocates’ top 5 priorities in Washington ()
Radiology Partners affiliate ARA Diagnostic Imaging reaches in-network deal with UnitedHealthcare ()
Radiologists call for action to address ‘growing suburban-urban gap’ in breast cancer detection ()
Enterprise imaging expands in smaller and midsized hospitals ()
Imaging lobbying group wants medical devices exempt from Trump tariffs ()
Simple IT tweak fuels same-day radiologist reads and clinic visits ()
Radiology department launches ‘financially viable’ 2nd-opinion service, ditches ‘curbside consults’ ()
Hospital giant Intermountain continues expanding homegrown outpatient imaging center chain ()
Lawmakers propose bipartisan bill to undo physician Medicare pay cut ()
Judge grants class-action status in suit over controversial $164M radiology practice sale ()
Corporations acquired 113 radiology practices, imaging centers over 11-year period ()
GE HealthCare invests $138M in new contrast media manufacturing site amid rising demand ()