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.

Financial, logistical reasons to blame for most missed cancer screenings
It may be more than anxiety and forgetfulness to blame for women missing their scheduled mammograms, according to new survey data.
5-point call goes out for action against ‘one of the most urgent and complex socioeconomic challenges of our time’
U.S. healthcare is in the throes of an affordability crisis. The good news is that healthcare leaders have all the evidence, tools and expertise needed to keep the predicament from becoming a plight. Can they marshal the will to wield those weapons toward that end?
Johnson & Johnson to acquire Atraverse Medical
The move, once finalized, helps Johnson & Johnson add multiple FDA-approved technologies to its EP portfolio.
Siemens Healthineers to receive $60M in federal funding for key cancer therapy
Photon flash therapy is an experimental treatment that delivers an ultrahigh dose rate of radiotherapy 100 times faster than currently available options.
Doctors agree: There’s a lot to love about cardiology’s future
According to a new survey, both cardiologists and noncardiologists feel good about the specialty's long-term health.

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Cardiologists support bipartisan prior authorization bill, praising its ‘transparency’ and ‘oversight’

The ACC is enthusiastically backing the bipartisan legislation, saying it would improve care for the country's cardiovascular patients.

Most hospitals fail online price transparency check—particularly for shoppable imaging services

Pricing for exams such as brain MRI, screening mammography, and head CT without contrast proved more difficult to track down compared to medications and lab testing.

Patients question radiology provider's billing practices after receiving notices from collections

Englewood, Colorado-based Radiology Imaging Associates says it has identified a software error likely responsible for the issue and is working to make corrections.

Boston-based tech company raises $8M to develop AI-powered CVD software

The company also announced that two specialists with more than 25 years of industry experience have joined its leadership team.

Nanox stock plummets after startup announces another delay in novel imaging system rollout

Chairman and CEO Ran Poliakine said the setback stems from a third-party supplier of a key ceramic tube in its Nanox.ARC technology.

FDA nods to breast cancer AI, knee replacement 3D

A medical AI startup focused on breast cancer diagnostics has uncloaked from stealth mode, appointing an MD as CEO and concertedly promoting its initial software offering seven months after the FDA approved the product.

Cardiologist leaves Amazon leadership role to join digital health startup

In the past, Majmudar has also helped manage the Healthcare Transformation Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital and served as an associate professor at Harvard Medical School.

Walmart acquires telehealth provider MeMD

Walmart is advancing its healthcare capabilities with the acquisition of telehealth provider MeMD.

Economics

Financial, logistical reasons to blame for most missed cancer screenings

5-point call goes out for action against ‘one of the most urgent and complex socioeconomic challenges of our time’

Johnson & Johnson to acquire Atraverse Medical

Siemens Healthineers to receive $60M in federal funding for key cancer therapy

Doctors agree: There’s a lot to love about cardiology’s future