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.

Medicare money payment physician. The CardioVascular Coalition and Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions have both issued new statements highlighting their issues with the 2024 MPFS proposed rule. 

Radiology Partners’ debt holders weighing options with attorneys following credit downgrade

The imaging giant's loan hit a recent low of 72 cents on the dollar, according to Bloomberg-compiled data, down from 80 cents in April. 

June 14, 2023
medivis SurgicalAR

Radiologist-founded augmented reality startup raises $20M from Kevin Durant, Mayo Clinic, Disney CEO

Medivis' SurgicalAR platform allows interventional radiologists and surgeons to holographically render patients' MRI and CT images during procedures. 

June 13, 2023
artificial intelligence money finance acquisition

RadNet expects to log upward of $18M in revenue from its AI division this year

CFO Mark Stolper recently spoke about the imaging group's artificial intelligence strategy at the Jefferies Healthcare Conference in New York.

June 13, 2023
Healthcare M&A, mergers and acquisitions business deal.

Private equity firm acquiring 'leading' teleradiology group that spans 48 states

Grovecourt Capital Partners said it hopes to fuel further expansion for Miami-based Premier Radiology Services, which was founded in 2006. 

June 12, 2023
Paul Taheri

US Radiology Specialists hires executive from its private equity backer to fill out C-suite

Paul Taheri, MD, MBA, will serve as chief clinical officer following his time as clinical partner at Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe. 

June 9, 2023
megaphone bullhorn speak announcement

Radiology societies issue ‘call to action’ against looming threat to physician offices’ financial viability

ACR, SIR, ASTRO and others are concerned about about forthcoming cuts in the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule that will impact specialties with high equipment costs.  

June 8, 2023
Starting salaries for specialist physicians have mostly increased over the last year. Demand for those specialists is also on the rise. What are doctors paid? What is the average salary of a doctor, physician?

Interventional radiology among 4 specialties with the greatest growth in claims volume since 2018

The specialty saw an 83% uptick in billing between 2018 and 2022, publicly traded data and analytics firm Definitive Healthcare reported. 

June 8, 2023
Doctor Computer

American College of Radiology, nuclear medicine society urge CMS to fix years-old billing code mistakes

SNMMI and ACR are pushing the agency to make modifications retroactive, so specialists can still claim lost revenues impacted by the error. 

June 8, 2023

Around the web

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

Using CT to perform coronary artery calcium scoring on symptomatic chest pain patients can deliver significant value, according to a new data published in Radiology

Peninsula Imaging told Mary Raver in 2014 that a cancerous growth was benign. She now has 18 months to live.

Trimed Popup
Trimed Popup