Infrastructure & Management

Tricare Denials and Delays Persist After 2025 Overhaul
Infrastructure & Management Tricare Denials and Delays Persist After 2025 Overhaul

Families who expected a routine pharmacy pickup or a standard follow-up appointment instead found collection threats, frozen prescriptions, and five-figure balances piling up over months as back-office flags and mismatched files undercut promises that Tricare’s transition was complete and stable.

Can Philips AI Spectral CT Outpace Costly Photon Counting?
Infrastructure & Management Can Philips AI Spectral CT Outpace Costly Photon Counting?

Hospital radiology leaders faced a stark calculation today: how to deliver sharper answers faster without sinking capital budgets into technology that slows throughput or requires specialized workflows, all while keeping radiation dose under control and staff time predictable across stacked

US Med-Equip Opens Portland Hub for Rapid Hospital Rentals
Infrastructure & Management US Med-Equip Opens Portland Hub for Rapid Hospital Rentals

Emergency departments across Oregon had been filling faster than beds could turn over, forcing hospitals to juggle surge protocols and patient transfers while clinicians chased equipment across campuses at critical moments. Against that backdrop, a fast-response medical equipment partner expanded

2026 Lab Compliance Guide: AKS, EKRA, Necessity, and Coding
Infrastructure & Management 2026 Lab Compliance Guide: AKS, EKRA, Necessity, and Coding

Record-setting health care fraud takedowns and lab-centered prosecutions have reset the compliance baseline, forcing diagnostics leaders to prove that every dollar paid and every test billed can withstand statutory, clinical, and coding scrutiny. Momentum from the Department of Justice’s 2025

Can RAPID Align FDA Approval With Timely Medicare Coverage?
Infrastructure & Management Can RAPID Align FDA Approval With Timely Medicare Coverage?

A device can clear the FDA and still spend years in limbo before Medicare agrees to pay for it, a gap that has drained momentum from breakthrough technologies and stranded value for patients, providers, and investors alike. The Regulatory Alignment for Predictable and Immediate Device (RAPID)

AI-Backed WISeR Pilot in Washington Delays Care, Draws Fire
Infrastructure & Management AI-Backed WISeR Pilot in Washington Delays Care, Draws Fire

Introduction Phone lines that once confirmed Medicare approvals in days now relay weekslong holds as an AI gatekeeper reroutes care through a new federal experiment in Washington. The WISeR model—short for Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction—was designed to slow unnecessary spending, yet

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