Economics

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.

COVID lockdown reopening

Imaging group Rezolut opens 26th center with more to come via Providence partnership

The 51-hospital industry giant first partnered with Rezolut in August 2020, and the two plan to launch several more outposts through their joint venture. 

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Private equity-backed SimonMed partners with online imaging marketplace Tripment Health

The platform teams with radiology groups, allowing them to list locations, appointment slots and prices to target cost-conscious consumers. 

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Mass General’s radiology expansion plans ‘threaten’ healthcare affordability, state watchdog warns

Nearly $1.9M in upgrades at the system's flagship hospital would pull $4M in CT and MR revenues away from other healthcare players, according to a new analysis.

What radiology providers need to know about 2022 CPT coding updates

The American Medical Association has added nearly 250 new Current Procedural Terminology codes this year, but only a select few impact imaging.

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Change Healthcare may sell off assets to close UnitedHealth deal, plus more vendor news

Also, Agfa to raise prices for its radiology solutions, Philips sees comparable sales decline, and Qure.ai scores an FDA clearance.

Salt Lake City Utah

Private equity-backed Rayus Radiology reveals additional expansion plans

The growing imaging group is launching two new outpatient centers, ballooning its national total to 152 and counting. 

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Diagnostic radiology absorbed a 44% Medicare reimbursement reduction over the last decade

The numbers appear “troublesome” and offer strong evidence of the need for reform, experts wrote in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology. 

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Radiology practice sells its offices in $29M leaseback deal, netting 77% profit

Windsong Radiology unloaded its two connected buildings to a Nashville, Tennessee, REIT after acquiring them for $16.25M in 2014

Around the web

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.

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.

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