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.

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Bracco Imaging to acquire Blue Earth Diagnostics for $450M

Bracco Imaging S.p.A. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Blue Earth Diagnostics, a U.K.-based molecular imaging company, for $450 million plus an additional closing adjustment of approximately $25 million.

ScriptSender, MedCurrent Corporation announce new partnership

ScriptSender, a West Palm Beach, Florida-based healthcare technology company, has partnered with Toronto-based MedCurrent Corporation to help its customers meet the CMS-mandated clinical decision support (CDS) guidelines scheduled to go into effect on Jan. 1, 2020.

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Radiology Partners inks deal with New Jersey-based Radiology Affiliates Imaging

Radiology Partners announced Thursday, June 27, that it has formed a new practice partnership with New Jersey-based Radiology Affiliates Imaging (RAI).

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Imaging center office manager sentenced to 5 years in prison for fraud scheme

The office manager at a California imaging center has been sentenced to five years in state prison for his role in a multi-million dollar kickback scheme.

Bribes common when vendors sell imaging equipment to Chinese hospitals

Leading imaging vendors regularly bribe government officials in China to get their products in area hospitals, according to an in-depth report from the New York Times.

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Merit Medical announces acquisition of Brightwater Medical

Merit Medical Systems, a medical device company based out of South Jordan, Utah, has acquired Brightwater Medical.

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Autonomous Radiology Groups Join Forces Under ‘Unified’ Banner

Sponsored by Unified Radiology

It was only recently that 10 radiology practices from around the United States formed a new managed services organization (MSO), named it Unified Radiology and took aim at securing independence for each member practice. Almost immediately, members discovered that the modest investment of time creating the MSO would result in significant financial returns, now and in the future.

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Show me the money: Reports highlight imaging’s billion-dollar impact on state economies

The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) has published three new reports exploring the medical imaging industry’s impact on state economies.

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.