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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In the Wake of the Merger: Addressing Billing MSO Issues

If properly addressed, the myriad issues that arise when merging the back offices of two or more practices can result in greater efficiencies and profitability

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Charting A Clearer Course to Imaging Price Transparency

Market forces and outpatient imaging providers are conspiring to bring increased transparency to the prices of medical imaging examinations

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RSNA: Ready or not, here comes MACRA

The 2,400-page Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015—“MACRA”—was only just finalized on October 14. But the law didn’t catch the American College of Radiology off guard. 

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Wachter at RSNA: Radiologists, tear down this paradox

The technological “productivity paradox”—the lag between a given technology’s implementation and its delivery of anything of real value—is a problem in all industries but may be worst of all in healthcare. 

JACR podcast breaks down economics behind pricing imaging equipment

The Journal of the American College of Radiology’s Firing Line podcast returns with a look behind the trade show curtain, explaining how vendors decide to bring new equipment to market and set price points. Imaging equipment vendors must analyze a staggering amount of data such as clinical usefulness, expected reimbursement, state of the market and product life cycle.

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Siemens plans public listing for its $15 billion healthcare division

In a move it claims to strengthen its brand, Siemens AG announced its plan to publicly list its $15 billion healthcare division, Siemens Healthineers.

Grant awarded to explore gut-brain relationship in HIV-positive patients

Cristina Granziera, MD, PHD of Massachusetts General Hospital was granted $77,495 to study the gut-brain relationship in HIV-positive patients.

Argus Teleradiology bringing remote reads to Arkansas

Argus Radiology will offer teleradiology services in Arkansas, bringing its business model centered on familiarity between client staff and radiologists.

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.