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Medical Imaging Workforce Crisis 2026
A scheduler in a busy imaging department is on her fourth call of the morning. 🔔 Two of her CT techs called out, there is no per diem pool left to tap, and the MRI ...
FQHC Funding Cliff Dec 2026
Everyone is talking about Medicaid cuts. The real FQHC crisis hits in December. 🚨 The Community Health Center Fund, the mandatory pool that supplies the bulk of Section 330 grant dollars, is authorized only through ...
DeepHealth Breast Ultrasound FDA Clearance
37% less interpretation time. That is not a feature. That is a workflow reset. 🔬 DeepHealth just got FDA 510(k) clearance for an AI-powered breast ultrasound solution that does something most imaging AI still does ...
Medicaid Work Rule Takes Effect
CMS just published its own projection of who loses Medicaid. The number stopped me cold. 😶 2.3 million people. That is what the agency itself projects will lose Medicaid coverage in fiscal year 2027 under ...
FDA Approves 2nd Blood CRC Test
A new blood test just changed colorectal cancer screening forever. 🩸 Everyone is celebrating this as a technology win. And it is. But the harder problem is not the test. It is the 60 million ...
This Week in Health Funding: 5 Deals
A physician sits in a reading room in Cleveland. Before she touches a single chart, an AI agent has already triaged her queue, flagged a coronary risk from an incidental scan, and routed three patients ...
CY2027 MPFS: Radiology Pay Cut Framework
CMS just cut radiology pay again. Nobody is surprised. That is the problem. 📉 When a payment cut lands and the collective response is a shrug, it means the erosion has become the baseline. On ...
CMS Defers $867M in CA Medicaid Funds
$867,465,287. That is the size of the federal Medicaid deferral CMS just dropped on California. 🚨 Not a rumor. Not a threat. A signed letter to California State Medicaid Director Tyler Sadwith dated July 21, ...