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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Carestream Health, Premier agree to new three-year purchasing contract

Carestream Health has a new three-year purchasing contract with the healthcare improvement company Premier.

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Merit-based Incentive Payment System: Here it Comes, Ready or Not

Under the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), radiologists will receive a composite performance score (0–100) based on a defined performance period. CMS will then use that score to adjust payments beginning in 2019.

IBM completes $1 billion acquisition of Merge Healthcare

IBM announced this week that the company has officially completed its $1 billion acquisition of Merge Healthcare. 

Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation acquires Olea Medical SA

Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation has completed its acquisition of software application manufacturer Olea Medical SA, the company announced this week. The final step was gaining approval of the deal from the French Ministry of Economy. 

Global Medical Imaging acquired by private investment company

Jordan Industries International (JII), a Chicago-based private investment company, has acquired medical imaging provider Global Medical Imaging (GMI).

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Professional Productivity Strategies: Beyond the RVU

As healthcare heads toward value-based payment, radiology is challenged to move beyond the relative value unit to measure physician performance

Study shows U.S. mammogram prices range from $43 to $1,898

Castlight Health issued its second annual U.S. Costliest Cities Analysis this week, using medical claims data to show the variety of prices patients are asked to pay for different medical procedures across the country.

EXPLORER project awarded $15.5 million to build total-body PET scanner

A research team at the University of California, Davis has been awarded a $15.5 million, five-year grant to build a total-body PET scanner. 

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Cardiovascular Business
Global shortage of nuclear imaging isotopes may be over

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.

Cardiovascular Business
‘A huge win’: CMS significantly increases Medicare payments for cardiac CT

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.

Cardiovascular Business
GE HealthCare moves PET/CT scanner production to United States

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