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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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UnitedHealth earns emergency order to buy radiology provider placed in crisis due to Change cyberattack

The nation’s largest healthcare corporation recently made an offer for the Corvallis Clinic, which has 11 locations across Oregon's Willamette Valley. 

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American College of Radiology meets with MedPAC to discuss paying for imaging AI

The college said it emphasized that “thoughtful assessment” will be needed to address where artificial intelligence belongs on the Medicare payment schedule. 

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Physicians criticize insurance lobby’s ‘tone-deaf’ response to Change Healthcare cyberattack

“This approach is particularly galling since service outages have exacerbated the administrative burdens and care delays already associated with" prior authorization, AMA said. 

Medical 3D printing expert Summer Decker, PhD, professor and vice chair for research and innovation, and director of 3D clinical applications, University of South Florida (USF) Morsani College of Medicine and Tampa General Hospital, explains what is involved in creating a 3D printiung program in radiology and how it helps patient care.

Pitching the business case for 3D printing labs in radiology

Medical 3D printing expert Summer Decker, PhD, University of South Florida, explains how her lab has helped improve patient care. 

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Federal government opens investigation into Change Healthcare cyberattack

Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights wants to know whether hackers captured sensitive patient information during the breach. 
 

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American College of Radiology issues guidance related to unusual new CPT code

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services now reimburses for code 76145, allowing physicists to contribute monetary value to the care team for their work

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Practice change boosts efficiency for interventional radiology procedures handled outside the OR

The non-operating room use of anesthesia is becoming increasingly popular in institutions that handle a high volume of IR cases. 

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Many physicians view private equity involvement in healthcare negatively, survey finds

MDs also carry concerns about PE as it pertains to provider well-being, healthcare prices, and equity, experts wrote in JAMA.  

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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.