UnitedHealth Group is acquiring Change Healthcare for about $8 billion cash, the companies jointly announced Wednesday morning.

All told, the private equity-backed physician services firm employs more than 900 radiologists operating in 570-plus facilities. 

CMS had originally planned to kick off the mandatory bundled-payment effort in July, but will now punt the go-live date to Jan. 1, 2022. 

“Implementing this revised policy will deny patients access to state-of-the-art imaging," college CEO William Thorwarth Jr., MD, wrote this month. 

SBA believes Judge Michael Williamson overstepped his authority in June when he ruled that yanking away funds from Gateway Radiology was discriminatory

Lawmakers said they hope to attach this "important new patient protection" to the end-of-year funding package. 

USRS announced Thursday that it's acquiring ImageSouth, the largest outpatient imaging operator in Birmingham, Alabama. 

An Israeli healthcare AI startup has earned a seventh green light from the FDA. Its latest algorithm can reconstruct X-rays of bones into 3D printouts with no less clarity than would be produced by advanced imaging modalities.