Envision Healthcare is exiting imaging, with its 400 radiologists joining industry giant Rad Partners. The nation's largest radiology practice—now employing 4,000 physicians—also has inked a "transition agreement" with Envision. This will grant its nearly 100 client care sites the option of continuing contracts with Rad Partners to ensure a seamless transition. Both sides emphasized this is not an acquisition but declined to disclose financial terms of the deal.
The company announced Wednesday that the acquisition of UpLift, a virtual therapy and psychiatry provider, deepens its footprint in virtual mental health services and further enables it to provide those services on an in-network basis. UpLift’s payer partnerships cover over 100 million lives with a network of about 1,500 mental health clinicians, according to a news release from Teladoc.
"Considering how infectious the virus is, they did a good job curtailing things," said Dr. Martin Van Dort, a Saint Vincent Hospital infectious diseases specialist. "Erie is fortunate to have a local health department that can do the contract tracing that is so important. Not every county is blessed with its own health department."
In 100 days, President Trump and his administration have not only upended the status quo for healthcare and challenged mainstream science, but slashed the workforce that's supposed to execute on their vision.