Swiss researchers retrospectively analyzed nearly 250,000 reports from 53 residents logged over a five-year period, sharing the results in Radiology. 

Affinity Equity Partners is buying 30-year-old Lumus Imaging, which employs over 2,000 imaging experts and support staff across 150 care sites. 

DxEx, as the agency calls it for short, ensures that imaging and other tests are ordered, interpreted, communicated and acted upon appropriately. 

They also face lengthier delays when their primary language is not English and if the exam requires anesthesia, experts write in Academic Radiology. 

A recent "mixed bag" ruling from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals threw the mandate into question, potentially jeopardizing imaging services for millions of Americans. 

RLS operates America’s only Joint Commission-accredited radiopharmacy network, with 31 locations covering over 85% of the U.S. population. 

Meanwhile, about two-thirds of physicians said staff hours devoted to processing prior authorizations had also risen in the past five years. 

Washington becomes one of a select few where attorneys can also go after a hospital that hired outside physicians, joining South Carolina, Michigan, Maryland and Iowa