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.

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Radiation therapy centers sold out of private equity-backed provider’s bankruptcy estate for nearly $3M

American Shared Hospital Services is acquiring a 60% stake and expects the facilities to generate upward of $10 million in annual revenue. 

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Princeton Radiology partners with AI startup to add full-body MRI service

The private practice is teaming with Ezra to offer the examination at its freestanding network of imaging centers in central and northern New Jersey. 

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Private equity firm, accused of trying to build a monopoly in radiology, dismissed as defendant in FTC lawsuit

The commission sued Welsh Carson in September, claiming the New York investment outfit and US Anesthesia Partners have perpetrated an “anticompetive scheme” to drive up prices.

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Rand releases bracing analysis of hospital prices; AHA repudiates approach, methodology

The Rand Corporation is reporting that, in 2022, employers and private insurers paid hospitals an average 254% more than what Medicare would have spent for the same services in the same facilities.

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Investor-backed Outpatient Imaging Affiliates inks deal to open academic center’s 1st freestanding site

UConn Health has seen “unprecedented growth” in patient volumes and hopes the facility will minimize wait times while cutting costs for patients. 

Patient advocacy groups urge Congress to create pathway for CMS to cover AI in radiology

The FDA has OK'd nearly 900 AI-enabled medical devices, but CMS has only assigned payment for about 10 of them. 

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Almost 80% of knowledge workers bring their own GenAI to work

Around the world, 3 of 4 workers who routinely handle information are now using generative AI on the job. And almost half of them are new to the technology, having begun using it only over the past half-year.

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Siemens Healthineers investing $314M to build new MRI manufacturing facility

This is the first major production site for the company's DryCool technology, which drastically reduces the amount of helium required for magnetic resonance imaging.