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.

Radiologists, healthcare workers are sick of praise, they’re looking for more pay

One imaging physician with the National Health Service said the speciality comes into contact with all COVID-19 patients and that the government has forgotten about workers such as herself.

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Radiology firm Alliance Healthcare Services could fetch upward of $400M in potential sale

The California-based company provides a range of services that include imaging joint ventures, help with center acquisitions, and outsourced radiology assistance for hospitals.  

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Physicians are using medical imaging as a defense against malpractice claims, study finds

Experts from Emory University discovered a correlation after studying national Medicare imaging trends over a 12-year period and lining them up against lawsuit payouts.

Pandemic perspectives: 3 affected generations, 1 stark conclusion

Millennials, Gen Xers and Baby Boomers fall fairly close to one another in how they view several aspects of life with COVID. One in which the divide is wide: the desire for a “digital detox.”

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Crisis clobbers affiliated imaging centers, with recovery coming slower than main hospital campus

Such sites generate significant income for hospitals, while also capturing a large portion of outpatient imaging, experts wrote in Academic Radiology

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NIH awards $4.6M grant for research into pediatric ‘chemo brain’

As part of the four year project, experts will pinpoint brain activity on functional MRI scans during attention, memory and other cognitive assessments.

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Deep dive finds more for radiologists to dislike in 2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

Consulting firm Healthcare Administrative Partners highlighted payment cuts as severe as 18% for high-volume imaging procedures. 

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Radiology provider Akumin says layoffs, pay cuts helped buoy $13.7M second quarter

The company has seen an uptick in COVID-19 cases in core markets, but third quarter volumes continue to recover from the steep drops seen in the spring.