The discussion comes following intense pressure from numerous imaging interest groups, who last week implored the ABR to offer alternatives during the pandemic. 

Businessman Maury Rosenberg had sought to collect legal damages from the Minneapolis lender, after it forced his National Medical Imaging into insolvency for defaulting on radiology equipment leases. 

It will be more than a year for the U.S. healthcare industry to return to normal, with physicians expecting the new normal to be sometime around August 2021—once a vaccine for COVID-19 has been distributed.

The rule eliminates provisions of a 2016 rule from the Obama administration that attempted to protect trans patients from discrimination.

CEO Jim Rechtin said such actions will include “reinvigorating” the Nashville physician firm’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee and creating a plan within the next 60 days to promote change in its service areas. 

Those include the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging and American College of Radiology, which want a reprieve from training for imaging and localization studies until after the public health crisis. 

Clinicians use the device to image blood flow dynamics during retinal exams, helping them spot age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and retinal vein occlusions.

The Royal College of Radiologists estimates that the country needs another 1,900 physicians to work through all of the cases, and many scanners in the United Kingdom are over a decade old.