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.

AHA warns ‘perfect storm’ of rising costs, reimbursement cuts threaten hospitals
In a new report, the AHA said strains from President Trump’s tariffs and struggles with Medicare Advantage plans are creating “financial headwinds” that could shake the economic stability of hospitals nationwide.
CVS Health’s Aetna to withdraw from ACA insurance marketplaces next year
The company cited declining enrollment as the reason for exiting the exchanges, including from patients seeking Medicare options.
Health system harnesses Epic EHR tool to bolster breast imaging uptake
“Epic Campaigns offers an easy-to-use, all-in-one platform to reach patients for preventive screening," researchers detailed Tuesday in JACR.
GE HealthCare expects $500M revenue reduction from tariffs
Despite newly implemented tariffs, the manufacturer says it was profitable in Q1 of 2025, but a greater impact on its operations looms later this year.
Certificate-of-need exemption fuels hospital’s outpatient imaging expansion in growing market
West Virginia carved out a CON concession for certain diagnostic imaging services in 2023, with Valley Health capitalizing on the law change.

Google’s healthcare API has its ‘first and only’ supplier of MFT software

Coviant Software is announcing it has become the first and only supplier of managed file transfer (MFT) software to fully support Google Cloud’s newly opened healthcare API for data exchange.

4 steps toward building durable trust upon COVID transparency

Leaders of academic medical departments could and should act now to turn the present public-health crisis into an opportunity for ensuring long-term team cohesion, suggest radiologist leaders at Vanderbilt.

Cancer screenings drop upward of 94% during pandemic, with concerns of lingering sluggishness

Epic recently made this discovery after analyzing data from about 2.7 million patients, treated at 190 hospitals across 23 states.

Radiologists ask commercial payers to pause prior authorization as specialty works through ‘enormous’ imaging backlog

The American College of Radiology says physicians are “concerned” about such impediments to resuming routine care, and it's asking for a three-month moratorium.

Canon rolls out quick-clean mobile CT for imaging ‘unprecedented number of potentially contagious patients’

The company claims claims its Aquilion Prime SP CT scanner can clean up following an exam in minutes, using an automated ultraviolet-light system.

HeartVista raises $8.65M for AI-powered MRI solutions, will offer free services during pandemic

The AI specialists have now raised $16.35 million overall.

AMA publishes ethical guidelines related to patient care during a pandemic

The American Medical Association (AMA) has published new guidelines to help physicians provide care during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Which healthcare AI startups made a close watcher’s top 25 for 2020?

Several healthcare AI companies rank among the “top 25 machine learning startups to watch in 2020” in the view of a senior contributor at Forbes.com.

Economics

AHA warns ‘perfect storm’ of rising costs, reimbursement cuts threaten hospitals

CVS Health’s Aetna to withdraw from ACA insurance marketplaces next year

Health system harnesses Epic EHR tool to bolster breast imaging uptake

GE HealthCare expects $500M revenue reduction from tariffs

Certificate-of-need exemption fuels hospital’s outpatient imaging expansion in growing market