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"This case reflects a troubling pattern in which payers, dissatisfied with IDR results, increasingly try to attack those outcomes outside the framework Congress created," Rad Partners says. 

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“Expanding residency slots and mitigating workforce attrition will be necessary to mitigate increasing workforce gaps," experts write in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. 

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The figure places the specialty third among medicine’s highest earners, behind only orthopedics ($611,000) and cardiology ($575,000), Medscape reports. 

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"Topped-out" measures may not actually reflect universally high performance, a new analysis of CMS data shows. 

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David Grau, Lucid’s chief operating officer, will take on the title beginning May 1, replacing Steve Corbeil. 

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AI technologies have changed daily life for provider organizations and industry partners alike. Arguably the biggest single difficulty to emerge from the complex transformation is the risk of cybersecurity breaches. 

FDA issues recall of imaging systems

The recall is officially an early alert, as the syringes are part of surgical convenience kits—the rest of which are safe to use. The defective syringes risk causing fatal injuries to patients and must be discarded. 

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The maker of popular GLP-1 agonists Wegovy and Ozempic said technology from OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, will allow it to sift through and make sense of massive datasets to identify potential new uses for its diabetes and obesity treatments.

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AI can help care teams get additional value out of routine head CT images.

The U.S. healthcare system is facing a deepening workforce shortage driven by policy constraints, limited training capacity and immigration barriers—issues that could significantly worsen in the coming years without reforms, according to Anders Gilberg, senior vice president, government affairs at Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), in the above video interview. #MGMA #IMMIGRATION

MGMA says Trump’s immigration policy combined with Congress’s unwillingness to fund additional medical residency positions is a primary driver accelerating the growing U.S. healthcare staffing shortage.

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Landiolol, sold under the brand name Rapiblyk, is only meant to be administered in a hospital setting. It was initially approved for adult patients in 2024.

One of the big late-breaking trials presented at the 2026 American College of Cardiology (ACC) Scientific Sessions was the CHAMPION-AF, which showed left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO) can offer a safe, non-drug alternative to anticoagulation therapy, even in patients with atrial fibrillation who are not at high risk for bleeding. First author of the study Shephal Doshi, MD, FACC, an electrophysiologist at Cedars Sinai Smidt Heart Institute, discussed the details of the trial. #LAAO #ACC #ACC26

At the end of the day, one electrophysiologist explained, these decisions should still be made on a case-by-case basis.

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"This case reflects a troubling pattern in which payers, dissatisfied with IDR results, increasingly try to attack those outcomes outside the framework Congress created," Rad Partners says.