Financial literacy is no longer optional for physicians. “If you're not financially viable, you can't function,” explained Nirat Beohar, MD. “The business education is probably just as important as learning a new procedure.”

These patients are typically treated with surgery, but those procedures carry their own risks that clinicians would prefer to avoid.

Riverside Healthcare, which provides radiology services to six different locations throughout Kankakee, Illinois, is turning to CIVIE to integrate the company’s teleradiology services via its RadPod platform.

The ACC and AHA have published updated performance and quality measures focused on the diagnosis and management of peripheral artery disease. Several other specialty societies, including SCAI and SIR, also participated in the development of this new document.

RSNA is looking for a replacement for Suhny Abbara, MD, who is now the editor-in-chief of its flagship journal.

The new policy applies to all health plans across Pennsylvania, New York, West Virginia and Delaware, “removing financial barriers for essential breast cancer diagnostics.”

Under terms of the deal, Carestream is unloading its international operations to Midea Group, a Chinese electrical appliance manufacturer. 

AI is an icy landslide sweeping through healthcare. Even surgeons must choose between two stark options: Ride the crest of the powder cloud now or dig yourselves out of a deep runout zone later. 

The U.S. Department of Justice alleges that 52-year-old Ritesh Kalra, MD, wrote 50 prescriptions a day for addictive painkillers and billed New Jersey Medicaid for patient visits that never occurred. The alleged incidents occurred between 2019 and 2025.

Numerous “alternative funding programs” are named as defendants in what is a larger challenge of the right of these third-party organizations to import drugs from overseas, bypassing FDA regulations.