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Imaging AI vendor Cleerly raises $106M in Series C funding

Founded in 2017, the Denver-based company offers an artificial intelligence solution that analyzes coronary CT angiography images for signs of heart disease. 

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Operations manager, doctors charged in $70M imaging kickback scheme

The scam took place over a period of seven years, resulting in Medicare being billed for more than $70 million in fraudulent claims for unnecessary scans. 

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Without radiology services, beleaguered hospital system forced to temporarily close 2 EDs

The challenges occurred after Crozer Health's previous longtime radiology services provider, Southeast Radiology Ltd., shuttered in June. 

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85% of radiation oncologists surveyed say the burden of prior authorization is worsening

Another 94% believe that this utilization-management tactic, deployed by health payers, exacerbates burnout among their staff, ASTRO reported Wednesday. 

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Radiology group will pay over $5M to settle allegations it bribed referrers

Private equity-backed American Health Imaging allegedly doled out tickets to concerts, the SEC Football Championship, meals and fishing trips to help induce referrals. 

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Radiologists say novel interventional procedure relieves knee arthritis

Experts hope their findings will encourage IR practices and hospital departments to pursue greater adoption of genicular artery embolization. 

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Startup Raidium raises nearly $17M, seeks to launch the ‘GPT of radiology’

The French company plans to open new offices in the U.S., expand its network, pursue FDA certification and intensify research and development. 

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Today's radiologist workforce will spend nearly $984M on certification

The figure includes about $208.5 million for initial board certification and another $775.3 million for maintaining the designation over a 35-year career. 

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Health Imaging
Nearly $800,000 settlement offered to family of man who died during MRI exam

The patient, who was being cared for in the ICU, was not accompanied or monitored by nursing staff during his exam, despite being sedated.

Cardiovascular Business
Global shortage of nuclear imaging isotopes may be over

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.

Cardiovascular Business
‘A huge win’: CMS significantly increases Medicare payments for cardiac CT

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.