The nearly half-billion-dollar loan balance will convert to shares of common stock, held by lender Stonepeak, with Akumin transitioning to a privately held company. 

Adding MSDR will allow AMN to provide a larger candidate pool, including professionals specializing in some of the “most needed, in-demand services.” 

Payers most frequently require PA for imaging (71%), followed by IV chemotherapy, surgery and radiotherapy, according to new survey data. 

Such behavior can lead to "increased stress and job dissatisfaction, at the expense of well-being of breast radiologists,” MD Anderson experts wrote in Clinical Imaging. 

The pause will last until Akumin can restore its systems in a “safe and secure manner,” leaving the company unable to see patients at its fixed-site locations. 

This year alone, ACR has tracked more than 100 proposed policies relating to radiologic scope-of-practice expansion, spanning 30 states.

“It’s eye-opening, but not surprising,” one healthcare staffing expert said about the hospital system's unusual employment offer.

Atlantic Street Capital is purchasing Brown’s Medical Imaging and plans to combine the company with previously acquired Prestige Medical Imaging.