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Radiologists are receiving salary offers averaging $455,000 to start a new job in 2022, up from $401,000 in 2021.  

Judging by work RVUs, U.S. physicians and other clinicians are getting decent raises every year without lifting their billable productivity enough to pay for it, AMGA’s latest survey suggests.

Childbirth

Machine learning can help post-childbirth mothers guard against problems with subsequent pregnancies, potentially saving their lives and those of their future babies.

According to calculations comparing catheter ablation with drug therapy, the additional quality-adjusted life-years that can result from the treatment justify its increased costs. 

In total, nine organizations will receive funding as part of the institute's Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics initiative or RADx.

The new project includes, among other things, key detection models and augmented reality microscopes. 

Belt

If they hope to survive the COVID healthcare economy, many independent hospitals may need to cut their workforces, slash their expenses, reduce their investments, pull the plug on some clinical service lines—or all of the above.

Hospital Costs

After reviewing provider reimbursements, an investigative reporter suggests the Trump administration’s low-profile initiative hasn’t been uniformly poor so much as undeniably erratic.

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The approval, made as part of a special FDA pilot program, took just 50 days.