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.

Hospital giant’s homegrown outpatient imaging center chain expands into new state
Intermountain Healthcare first launched Tellica Imaging in 2021 as it sought to capitalize on the growing movement of radiology services outside of the hospital setting.
AI catches overlooked broken vertebra on X-rays, with sizable cost-saving implications
The software could opportunistically screen patients at a smaller cost than other interventions, given it automatically operates "in the background" on radiographs performed for other reasons.
90% of residents in radiology and other specialties say they’re underpaid: ‘I am barely surviving’
The finding comes despite a 27% increase in average resident pay over the last nine years and 4% year-over-year growth, up to $70,000.
Interventional radiology vendor Merit Medical to acquire device portfolio for $210M
Cook Medical’s lead management portfolio generated about $37 million in revenue in 2023, with most sales in the U.S., Utah-based Merit noted.
Radiology AI firm specializing in automating MRI workflows raises $19M
Copenhagen-based Cerebriu said the Danish VC firm North Ventures led the Series A funding round with support from EIFO and Sagitta Ventures.

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Sponsored by Canopy Partners

When the dust settles from all the recent activity and changes in the healthcare environment, it will soon become clear that there has been a major shift in the way healthcare is practiced, measured, and compensated.

Deadline Looms for “High Risk” Enrollees

According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, there is a significant segment of high risk individuals with pre-existing medical conditions currently enrolled in a federal health insurance program that is slated to close on March 31, 2014. This federal program was created shortly after the 2010 health law was passed to offer assistance to those people who couldn’t get coverage from commercial insurers because of their pre-existing medical conditions. There was $5 billion in funding set aside to cover this group’s medical claims through December 31, 2013. 

March 15, 2014

Feds Seize Records in Zwanger-Pesiri Medicare Probe

According to an article published in NewsDay, Federal agents raided the corporate headquarters of Zwanger-Pesiri Radiology in Lindenhurst on Tuesday, March 11, seizing the records of the business that operates 12 medical offices on Long Island, NY. 

March 14, 2014

Navigating the MU Pathway: Stages 1 & 2

Sponsored by FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas

Join us for a presentation by the American College of Radiology's Michael Peters on what radiologists need to know to attest to Stages 1 and 2 of the federal Meaningful Use Program, followed by a Q & A session.

Example of a curved MPR image reconstruction of entire length of of a coronary artery on a cardiac CT scan to better show calcified and soft plaque burden inside the vessel. The thumbnail dots on the left side of the image are cross sectional views of the vessel. Siemens example on the expo floor.

The CCTA Playbook: A Guide to Coding, Reimbursement and Operations

A compendium of the business intelligence required to launch a CCTA service

March 2, 2009

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Health Imaging

What might reimbursements for proposed MRI safety CPT codes look like?

Prior to the final proposal’s release, the American College of Radiology reached out to CMS to offer its recommendations on payment rates for five out of the six the new codes.

Health Imaging

'A very, very good thing'—CMS proposes reimbursements for providers' efforts to ensure MRI safety

“Before these CPT codes there was no real acknowledgment of the additional burden borne by the providers who accepted these patients."

Cardiovascular Business

New imaging technique captures human heart with 'unprecedented detail'

The new images were captured at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility using hierarchical phase-contrast tomography. One specialist called them "Google Earth for the human heart."

Economics

Hospital giant’s homegrown outpatient imaging center chain expands into new state

AI catches overlooked broken vertebra on X-rays, with sizable cost-saving implications

90% of residents in radiology and other specialties say they’re underpaid: ‘I am barely surviving’

Interventional radiology vendor Merit Medical to acquire device portfolio for $210M

Radiology AI firm specializing in automating MRI workflows raises $19M

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