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. 

The deal is with an unspecified radiology organization spanning multiple states, operating more than 20 sites that handle 2 million-plus medical images per year. 

Kate Hanneman, MD, explains why many vendors and hospitals want to lower radiology's impact on the environment. "Taking steps to reduce the carbon footprint in healthcare isn’t just an opportunity," she said. "It’s also a responsibility."

The decision comes amid strong demand for the publicly traded, Los Angeles-based radiology provider’s services.