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This channel highlights factors that impact hospital and healthcare economics and revenue. This includes news on healthcare policies, reimbursement, marketing, business plans, mergers and acquisitions, supply chain, salaries, staffing, and the implementation of a cost-effective environment for patients and providers.

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Tech firm, specializing in tools to enhance MR imaging, ups fundraising total to $140M

Perspectum's flagship product is a noninvasive AI tool used to help physicians evaluate for the signs of liver disease. 

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AMA pressures federal government to fix prior authorization problem plaguing radiology

About 89% of physicians surveyed believe that this payer tactic has had a negative impact on care, the association reported Monday. 

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New Radiology study offers key clues as to where practices should prioritize expansion plans

Individuals living in "extremely disadvantaged" ZIP codes are less likely to have access to accredited imaging facilities. 

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Insurer-owned hospital system has invested $400M to bolster radiology services in recent years

Highmark Health's latest effort will spend another $12 million to build a new 8,000 square-foot imaging center in western Pennsylvania. 

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Radiology societies ‘extremely disheartened’ over elimination of Medicare coverage for key procedure

Radiologists and pain management specialists are urging CMS to reconsider the decision and maintain access to this alternative to opioids or surgery. 

FDA clears first commercially available blood test for traumatic brain injury, reducing need for CT

Industry giant Abbott estimated that the new test could reduce the number of unnecessary computed tomography scans by up to 40%.

One of the nation’s largest mobile imaging providers gets even bigger with latest acquisition

West Fargo, North Dakota-headquartered DMS Health Technologies is acquiring the assets of Advanced Imaging Management, bolstering its MRI and ultrasound offerings.  

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American College of Radiology urges CMS to resume dispute resolutions under surprise-billing act

Failure to act could prove detrimental to physicians and their patients, ACR and similar groups representing anesthesiologists and emergency providers argued. 

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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.

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‘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.

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GE HealthCare moves PET/CT scanner production to United States

The all-in-one Omni Legend PET/CT scanner is now being manufactured in a new production facility in Waukesha, Wisconsin.