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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Judge declines to toss radiologist’s lawsuit alleging age discrimination led to her firing

Septuagenarian Claire Hanley, MD, first sued the country’s largest municipal health system in 2019 after she was replaced by someone 30 years younger.

March 26, 2024
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GE HealthCare touts FDA clearance of solution that allows technologists to scan remotely

The offering is from Ionic Health, which is based in São Paulo, Brazil, where the company has already tested the technology for three years. 

March 25, 2024
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Radiologists voice support for lawsuit against Biden administration

The American College of Radiology, American College of Emergency Physicians and American Society of Anesthesiologists want a court of appeals to uphold a recent ruling. 

March 25, 2024
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Authors in prominent radiology journals fail to disclose $186M in payments from the imaging industry

Nearly 81% of authors failed to report any ties to the industry, experts detailed Saturday in the Journal of the American College of Radiology

March 24, 2024
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Radiologists produce imitation PET scans via routine CT imaging

“With further tuning and validation, this pipeline may potentially add value in cancer screening, staging, diagnosis and prognosis," experts wrote in Cell Reports Medicine.  
 

March 24, 2024

Judge denies radiology group’s attempt to dismiss lawsuit over $177M sale of the practice

Technologist Robert Harrison and his attorneys filed the complaint in 2021, charging that shareholders grossly overpaid in the deal, among other contentions

March 24, 2024
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Powering down interventional imaging systems saves tens of thousands in electricity costs

Making the hypothetical adjustment of switching all idle systems to off overnight and on weekends would save one hospital about $38,000. 
 

March 22, 2024
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Nearly 15% of claims submitted to private payers are initially denied

Private payers eventually overturned more than half of denials, with the claims paid, but only after “multiple, costly rounds of provider appeals.” 

March 22, 2024

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"This was an unneeded burden, which was solely adding to the administrative hassles of medicine," said American Society of Nuclear Cardiology President Larry Phillips.

SCAI and four other major healthcare organizations signed a joint letter in support of intravascular ultrasound. 

The newly approved AI models are designed to improve the detection of pulmonary embolisms and strokes in patients who undergo CT scans.

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