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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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Walmart Health doubling in size, offering imaging, Epic EHR integration in 2 new states

Each of the new “state of the art” facilities will stand at about 5,750 square feet, staffed by doctors and offering the full gamut of healthcare services. 

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Bipartisan bill aims to boost Medicare patients’ access to diagnostic imaging agents

The Facilitating Innovative Nuclear Diagnostics Act of 2023 would eliminate barriers to nuclear medicine, supporters charged. 

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‘Tremendous setback’: Imaging advocate blasts CMS decision on Alzheimer’s care

The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance challenged Medicare's limited coverage for beta-amyloid PET, used to help identify those at risk.

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Imaging giant RadNet loses $25M on AI segment but sees profitability ahead in 2024

The Los Angeles-based imaging center operator has made a big play in AI recently, including buying two such firms last year for $100M. 

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2021 Medicare policy changes dragged down radiologist pay, new study confirms

Specialties that provided fewer E/M services, such as radiology and general surgery, saw the largest declines, experts wrote in JAMA. 

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GE HealthCare inks new joint venture aimed at broadening access to imaging

The Chicago-headquartered medical technology company is teaming with a subsidiary of Sinopharm, China’s state-owned drugmaker, around CT and ultrasound.

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Insights into early MRI-termination risk factors offer helpful strategies for prevention

Even a small number of early terminations can be costly, in addition to creating negative experiences for patients, experts wrote in the European Journal of Radiology. 

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Pelvic CT after liver cancer: Costs versus benefits

Should patients treated for hepatocellular carcinoma undergo regular follow-up pelvic CTs? Rising survival rates may change the calculus.

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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.

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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.