Backed by investment firm Groupe Bruxelles Lambert, Europe's largest diagnostic imaging provider has a deal to acquire a Romanian radiotherapy firm.  

The Federal Trade Commission, Department of Justice, and Health and Human Services want to learn more about corporations’ “increasing control” of the field. 

The country's largest imaging group spent more than it was collecting in both 2022 and 2023, but the ratings agency believes it may be turning a corner. 

The department is urging managed care plans to relax prior authorization requirements during the outage and instructing MACs to accept paper claims. 

Across the specialty, 15 private equity firms held market shares greater than 30% in their service area, researchers detailed in Health Affairs. 

“There’s a lot of scrambling among our members,” Radiology Business Management Association Executive Director Bob Still said Monday. 

David Grau served as the Columbus-based company’s chief strategy officer from 2020 to 2023 before recently taking on the newly created COO role. 
 

IRs are inconsistently defined in health research and underrepresented by specialty designation in claims data, experts wrote Monday.